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Starting January 1, 2021, it will be up to twice as expensive for electric cars to go through the Oslo toll. This is the result of the breakdown of negotiations on the Oslo Package 3, reports NRK on Thursday morning.
Outside rush hour, prices will increase from 5 to 10 crowns in ring 2 and ring 3, but will increase from 4 to 8 crowns in ring 1 (center). During peak hours, prices will increase from NOK 10 to 15 (rings 2 and 3) and from NOK 8 to 10 (rings 1).
However, the price of gasoline, diesel and hybrid cars will remain unchanged. Without a political agreement on Oslo Package 3, prices for cars with fossil engines cannot be increased either. The reason electric car prices keep rising is that it was already adopted long before the breakdown of negotiations on the Oslo Package 3, since 2016 and 2017.
This is the expected price increase for electric cars:
- In the two outer rings, the price per pass increases from 5 to 10 crowns outside of rush hour (from 10 to 15 in rush hour).
- In the inner ring, the price per pass increases from 4 to 8 crowns outside of rush hour (from 8 to 10 in rush).
End of manual transmission
– Completely wrong way
This makes the Norwegian Association of Electric Cars react.
– Unilaterally raising rates for electric cars is the wrong way to go, if the Oslo municipality wants to be able to achieve the goal of all cars in Oslo by 2030 being zero-emission cars, says Secretary General Christina Bu of the Car Association Dinside Electric.
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It also refers to the Norwegian target of 2025, as all newly registered cars must be fully electric. And in Oslo, electric motorists from 2021 will have a 50 percent electric car tariff, Bu believes.
– For Oslo to be successful, they must have a policy that encourages people to choose electric cars. Bergen has stopped at 40 percent of electric car tariffs, while Trondheim has not introduced any tolls for electric cars. And now Trondheim has caught up with Oslo on electric car sales, the secretary-general said.
This is the Oslo package 3
- In plan for road development, operation and development of public transport in Oslo and Viken.
- Municipalities involved They are Oslo, Vestby, Nordre Follo, Ås, Bærum, Nesodden, Frogn, Asker, Rælingen, Aurskog-Høland, Enebakk, Lillestrøm, Nittedal, Gjerdrum, Lørenskog, Ullensaker, Eidsvoll, Nes, Nannestad, Hurdal
- The time horizon for the project it is 2008-2032.
- The objective is Develop a safe, ecological, efficient and accessible transportation system for a rapidly growing region.
- 108.00 billion NOK, so far it has cost in 2013 a value of crowns, for the measures that have been implemented so far since 2008, and that are planned to be implemented until 2032 inclusive.
- The financing of the measures is planned with tolls from the toll ring in Oslo and Bærumsringen, as well as contributions from the owners (Fornebubanen and E18 Filipstad) and funds from the state, the Oslo municipality and the Akershus county municipality.
- Additionally A separate financing solution is assumed for E18 in the Western Corridor and E6 Oslo East (Manglerud project), involving government grants and new toll stations when new roads are opened to traffic.
Source: Norwegian Public Roads Administration
