Few in the shipping industry will have noticed a Chinese car manufacturer has just won permission to sell its products in Norway.

State-owned Chery Automobile's low-cost electric vehicle (EV) Arrizo will be the first of six Chinese EVs set to launch in a Nordic country, leading the world in the transition to low-carbon transport.

Half of all car sales in Norway during the first six months of 2019 were fully electric and EVs could take 10% of the new car market in California and Britain this year, some analysts predict.