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There are now more electric cars on Norway’s roads than pure petrol-driven ones. The road traffic interest group OFV said on Tuesday more electric cars than petrol cars are now registered in the country for the first time in Norwegian automotive history. The OFV figures suggested there were 754,303 electric cars and 753,905 petrol cars among the 2.8 million registered passenger cars in the Scandinavian country. Hybrid models were excluded from the figures. “This is historic. A milestone that few would have predicted 10 years ago,” said Øyvind Solberg Thorsen, director of the OFV, pointing to t…