Also, that article is from February, about a 1 month change in sales in January when the subsidy was dropped. On Dec 1, anyone who had near-term plans to buy an EV would obviously push to buy before the loss of subsidy in Jan. And by corollary, anyone who buys in Jan is probably highly price insensitive (rare) or had the purchase forced by other events (like their current car was totaled). This change doesn’t say anything meaningful (positive or negative) about the intrinsic value of EVs in Norway. There is no way to infer any kind of “normal sales of EV vehicles” from this data.

Of course it was via government intervention. This whole post is about massive government intervention.