It happened as we predicted – it turned out exactly on time.

In fact, Kia’s combined price and tax guarantee was supposed to end today. It hasn’t.

15.10.2026 12:32 | Updated 12:57

Earlier this fall, Kia was among the first to join this year’s season of tax guarantee promotions, which have been popular in Norway over the past few years as authorities gradually introduced taxes on electric vehicles.

Should We Dance to the Tax Tune?

In late September, Kia announced its “Should We Dance to the Tax Tune?” campaign, promising both tax and price guarantees on most of its electric vehicle models delivered by next year.

By price guarantee, they meant: “Customers avoid any possible price hikes from the manufacturer and also benefit from current promotions. These could include winter tire campaigns, price discounts, or favorable interest rates,” according to Kia.

The assumption was that you would sign the purchase contract this year – and commit to it.

But there was an assumption as well, that the offer would be short-lived and last until “mid-October.”

Planned extension?

In other words, the double guarantee should have expired today.

We were concerned about this and wrote that it “would greatly surprise us if they didn’t extend it for another year”:

And indeed, today there was news that Kia is extending its offer this time until November 30.

Kia Norge cites their “record sales” and progress toward an “all-time high” in new car sales as reasons.

So we’ll see if Kia extends the offer by another month by the end of November.

What we likely will never know is whether they believed in their own time limits from the start, or if it was always their plan to draw attention to the offer over several rounds.

In that case, we are the useful idiots. But it’s also possible their plan was to push away customers who were waiting by making them think there was a rush, while planning to lure in later buyers.

In any case, elbil.no promises this: If Kia delivers a significant delay by the end of November, we won’t write a word about it.

That’s our guarantee.

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