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Norway said that electric or hybrid cars represented half of new registrations in the country so far in 2017, as Norway continues its trend towards becoming one of the most ecologically progressive countries in the world.

According to figures from the Road Traffic Information Council (OFV), cited by AFP, sales of electric cars accounted for 17.6 per cent of new vehicle registrations in January and hybrid cars accounted for 33.8 per cent, for a combined 51.4 per cent.

Norway already has the highest per capita number of all-electric cars in the world and the experiment shows every sign of accelerating.

Seat’s charismatic design chief Alejandro Mesonero-Romanas has frank words for the future of car design, as new technologies and ecological demands force a complete rethink of how cars are or built, powered and driven. “We are facing a kind of chaos at the moment.”, he says. “No-one really knows how or when autonomous driving will be an accessible-to-all reality.

We are putting every technology in a big melting pot but really we don’t know what we are cooking.All brands are really looking to see what will happen when – and have a prepared set of scenarios. As our CEO announced yesterday, Seat will get its first pure EV in 2019. I’m working on electric car projects coming further away than that. I can tell you we will be competitive, since we are the VW Group, because we can profit from the group projects. We are investing in connectivity and electrification, because this will be the future,” he added.

Beautiful, exotic super cars always seem to steal the stage at the Geneva Motor Show. A cadre of irresistible sports cars keep that tradition alive at the 2017 edition. While many automakers teased us with pictures in advance of the press previews, there’s nothing like an exclusive personal glance at these works of technological art. A who’s who of luxury automakers unveiled new models and variants including Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin, and Lamborghini. But the best part about Geneva are the surprises from automakers that are more obscure to American audiences like Renault and Pagani. Most people will never buy or own these cars that have price tags steep into the six figure range. By design the super cars of Geneva push the boundaries of speed and excess. Geneva is a reminder that an irresistible sports car is always something to behold.