Infographics: Norway on top

Norway is leading the world's electric vehicle market, having registered its 50,000th electric car in April of this year. In the first quarter of 2015, 8,112 plug-in electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles were sold in Norway, accounting for a third of the country's total vehicle registrations, according to IHS Automotive.

Compared to other countries, that is quite an achievement. The Netherlands sold 5,760 electric vehicles in Q1, and these accounted for a 5.7 percent share of all registrations, some distance behind Norway's 33.1 percent. In the United States and France, electric cars had a 0.8 percent share of registrations.

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