Electric passenger vehicles now outnumber gasoline cars on the roads in Norway, according to the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV).

Of the 2.8 million passenger cars registered in the Nordic nation on Sept 16, 754,303 are electric, OFV said on Tuesday. Electric cars accounted for 26.3% of registered passenger vehicles, with diesel cars comprising 35%, the federation said.

September also marks the first month since 2011 that there are less than one million diesel cars on Norwegian roads.

“The electrification of passenger cars continues to move at a high tempo,” OFV director Oyvind Solberg Thorsen said.

The federation also noted:

  - Bloomberg