Half of all new cars sold in Norway are electric or hybrids, here is why

For all the noise car-makers have made about them, the eerie silence of electrified vehicles on the road has been matched by their performance on Australia’s sales charts.
The Australian sales penetration of full electric cars (EVs), plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and even conventional series hybrids is among the lowest of any mature market.
For some time, a number of car-makers from Nissan to BMW have been calling on the government to offer incentives to fleets and private buyers to go gre