What a drive in Norway costs

What driving costs in Norway: four common drives

All figures come from the calculator above, for a petrol car under 6 metres with no AutoPASS agreement, leaving on a Monday at 09:00. The last column is the same drive in an electric car with an AutoPASS tag, charged at home.

Fuel is the biggest item on almost every drive, and the one fewest people work out. Tolls come second in the east and around the cities. Ferries come first on the west coast: Bergen–Stavanger is shorter than Oslo–Kristiansand and costs the same, because NOK 354 of it goes on two ferries.

Three items on the bill — how we price them

Fuel

Kilometres driven × consumption × price — and you set both figures yourself in the calculator above, in the Price and Consumption fields under "Vehicle and fuel". Then the bill is your car's, not an average car's: the litre price you actually paid, the consumption the car actually has. Until you do, we start from NOK 25 a litre for petrol and diesel — a typical pump price, since Statistics Norway's monthly average runs about two months behind — with 7.5 l/100 km for petrol, 6.5 for diesel and 18 kWh for an electric car at NOK 4 per kWh (home charging). The kilometres you spend on a ferry deck are not counted: of Bergen–Stavanger's 209 km, 31 are at sea, and a calculator that multiplies the whole distance by consumption overcharges that drive by 17 per cent.

If the car has a Norwegian registration number, "Look up" pulls its length, weight and fuel from the vehicle register. The app remembers your consumption for the next drive.

Tolls

Every toll station on the route, at the rate for your vehicle, the hour you pass and the tag you have. Rush-hour rates, the hour rule and the electric-car discount are applied per station. How toll roads in Norway work, for foreign and rental cars too.

Ferries

Every crossing on the route, at the AutoPASS fare for your length class, with the next departures from the timetable and the wait you can expect. Ferry prices and timetables in Norway.

Electric cars: charging, tolls and ferries

An electric car saves on all three items. Electricity at home costs about a quarter of petrol per kilometre. In the toll rings an electric car pays at most 70 per cent of the ordinary rate, but only with a valid AutoPASS agreement. On the AutoPASS ferries an electric car under six metres pays 70 per cent of the ordinary fare. Oslo–Bergen comes to NOK 496 in an electric car against NOK 988 in a petrol car.

When you leave matters

Pick the day and time before you calculate. Toll stations with a rush-hour rate are on average 49 per cent dearer between 06:30 and 09:00 and between 15:00 and 17:00 on weekdays. Ferries run less often in the evening and on Sundays, and the wait is added to the travel time. Oslo–Trondheim costs NOK 342 in tolls leaving at 09:00 and about NOK 30 less at 14:00.

Motorhomes, caravans, motorcycles and heavy vehicles

• Motorhomes pay car rates at the tolls under 3.5 tonnes, and ferries by total length. Over 3.5 tonnes the heavy rate applies at the tolls and a separate ferry class.
• A car with a caravan pays tolls as the car alone, but ferries by combined length — choose the length class in the calculator.
• Motorcycles are exempt at most toll stations and have their own, lower ferry fare.
• Foreign and rental cars pay the same rates. Tolls are invoiced afterwards by Epass24; ferries are paid on board or at the machine.

What the calculator does not know

Your real consumption — it depends on the car, the load, the speed and the weather, and we use an average until you set your own in the app. Parking, nights and food. And the queue: the app reads cancelled sailings and closed roads from the Roads Administration and Entur and routes around them; the web calculator does not yet.

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