List 4 Countries With The World's Most Electric Car Population

Illustration of an electric car (Pixabay).

YOGYAKARTA The electric vehicle (EV) market is believed to continue to grow in many countries.

Based on the World Economic Forum report, world electric car sales have increased by 30 percent hamor every year in the last decade. So, which countries use the most electric cars?

Please note, the electric vehicle industry continues to grow in various countries, even though it is in difficult conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A number of countries managed to push electric cars past 10 percent of the total sales of new vehicles in 2020.

Compiled by VOI from various sources, here is a list of countries with the most electric car populations in the world.

Norway is the country with the most electric car population. In this country, the share of plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs) reaches 75 percent.

Meanwhile, according to data published by the Canary Media page, Norway is the country with the highest number of electric vehicles in the world with 81 percent per 1,000 population in 2020.

The high interest of the Norwegian people in electric cars is high because the country's government is exempting road taxes or sales taxes on electric car owners.

Based on the World Economic Forum analysis, the tax exemption policy has helped to increase the population of electric cars in Norway. Thanks to this policy, Norway managed to choose many electric vehicles per capita over other countries.

The Norwegian government has set a target that the use of oil-fueled cars will end in 2023 and transfer it entirely to electric vehicles.

The second country with the largest electric car population is Iceland. The country has 36.8 percent of electric vehicles per 1,000 population.

In Iceland, electric vehicles have been booming since 2017. At that time, the share of electric vehicles was still 8.7 percent.

Iceland is the first country to provide incentives or discounts on value added taxes, specifically for low-emissions countries. This policy is enforced until 2023. The goal is to protect the surrounding environment and further foster the habit of using environmentally friendly vehicles.

The Swedish government continues to intensify the conversion program for fueled vehicles to electric vehicles. This can be seen from the steps taken by the Swedish government to strengthen cooperation through research partnership programs and major transportation innovations.

This program is proclaimed so that greenhouse gas emissions can be suppressed as much as possible and the competitiveness of the Swedish automotive industry is able to be stronger.

In this country, the population of electric vehicles reaches 20.6 percent per 1,000 population.

The number of electric vehicles in Sweden reaches 56,000.

This number has increased rapidly because in 2009, the number of electric vehicles in Sweden was only 157 units.

The large population of electric vehicles in Sweden is also accompanied by the increasing number of electric charging stations.

In 2018, the number of public electric vehicle charging stations in Sweden reached 6 thousand stations. In fact, in 2012, there were only 500 units.

The Netherlands is one of the countries with the fastest growth in electric cars in Europe.

The Dutch government itself has set an ambitious target to increase the population of electric cars in the next decade.

They set a target for purchasing vehicles by 2030, which is an electric vehicle. Therefore, they prepare tax incentives to encourage people to buy electric cars.

Currently, the number of public electric vehicle charging stations in the Netherlands has reached 75,000 units.

This figure accounts for 33 percent of the availability of electric car charging stations throughout Europe.

That's the country's information that uses the most electric cars in the world.