Metrostav runs on green electricity in Norway

Metrostav Norge, a construction company operating in the prestigious Norwegian market, has taken a significant step in sustainable development. To address passenger transport on its projects, the company has secured electric vehicles, reducing both the carbon footprint and the production of pollutants from its own passenger transport. The company’s fleet includes Opel e-Zafira and Opel e-Corsa vehicles. In Norway, Metrostav Norge is currently building a tunnel for trains, cyclists and pedestrians in Bergen, an access tunnel for the extension of the metro line in Oslo and eight bridge structures near Molde.

“The Norwegians are very keen on protecting nature, but they are also willing to invest in infrastructure so that it is comfortable to use sustainable technologies. The network of charging stations they are building, which is already becoming quite robust, allows even electric cars with lower battery capacity to travel long distances. Our Opels have a range of 340 km and can be recharged to 80% in just 20 minutes at fast charging stations. For the record, we have been inspired by local residents and, like them, have had outdoor charging sockets installed at our apartments in Oslo, where we can ‘top up’ full overnight,” says Ales Richter, Sales Director at Metrostav Norge AS.

The use of electric vehicles in Norway represents a truly green mode of transport, as the Norwegian energy mix is mainly based on renewable sources. According to data from the European Network of Transmission System Operators, last year Norwegians generated 92.2% of their electricity from water and most of the remainder from wind. It is thus a bit of an exaggeration to say that electric cars in Norway run mainly on water. This is also why the country has long been massively promoting the development of electromobility, and in recent years this has already yielded tangible results. Among new car sales, electric motors have long dominated over combustion engines.

“In Norway, cars with combustion engines have always been burdened with a huge tax, and when we did the math, we came to the bizarre conclusion that a company diesel from the traditional Czech brand Škoda would cost us more to lease in Norway than a current model of TESLA electric car!” says Pavel Přibáň, an employee of Metrostav Norge and a big fan of electric cars.

Norway is a country of clean energy, fjords, mountains, but also tunnels. In total, it has more than a thousand tunnels with a total length of around a thousand kilometres. (For comparison, the Czech Republic is in the lower tens of kilometres). However, Norway’s road construction industry is currently experiencing its biggest boom, thanks to the so-called National Transport Plan, which has channeled hundreds of billions of Norwegian kroner into infrastructure construction. Metrostav has been involved in tunnel construction in Norway since 2014.

Contact details

Vojtěch Kostiha
Spokesman of Metrostav Group
Metrostav a.s. Koželužská 2450/4 180 00 Prague 8
T 266 019 715, M 606 629 225
vojtech.kostiha@metrostav.cz