Norway Wants To Ban The Sale Of All New Petrol And Diesel Cars By 2025
“That’s a bit drastic,” some of you probably thought, when it was announced that the city of Paris was to ban all cars built before 2010 from its centre by 2020. However, that all seems pretty minor in comparison to what the Norwegian government is cooking up. According to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, the country’s government is considering banning the sale of any new petrol or diesel powered car by 2025.
Almost a quarter of all new car sales in Norway are made up of electric vehicles, but to forcibly bring that up to 100 per cent would be an extraordinary move, and an interesting one given that the country’s economy relies heavily on the exportation of oil. It won’t just be diesel and petrol cars getting the boot, either: the plans also cover light commercial vehicles and busses.
It’s important to note this isn’t definite just yet; while the proposed law has been put forward, it hasn’t yet been passed. We’ll be watching this with interest.
What do you think of the proposals? We’re keen to hear your views, particularly if you’re a Norwegian petrolhead!
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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NO, Its happening. they said it wouldn’t but it is! damn you prius!
Prius will be banned aswell then.
They’re not banning petrol/diesel cars, they’re just banning you from buying them new in norway. Maybe people will be able to import petrol cars and stuff.
I’m sure they will put huge import taxes to prevent this, politicians are douchebags
Only reason why Elon Musk is happy is because he’ll be selling EVEN MORE Tesla’s now.
That is a bit drastic, especially since you can count the number of electric cars on the market in Europe on two hands… but I’m pretty sure they mostly drive Teslas anyway
That is why is set up to 2025. Probably the number of electric car will had increased a lot.
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Norway news paper stories are 30X better to look at
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RIP Norway petrol-heads.
How bout we eject the people who want to rid of petrol cars?
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i don’t want this, but i understand why its happening and i think it is the right thing to do, not just for Norway but for the whole world, i just hope they let us drive petrol powered vehicles for recreational purposes, at least on race tracks.