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.
Comments
That’s it!
I’m moving somewhere else!
The Norwegian government is a bunch of incompetent ass holes that doesn’t understand what the common man want. ther’se a reason why most Norwegians consider moving to Sweden (where the government have the ability to think, they don’tt have incredible high taxes for everything and they don’t have the same amount of idiotic rules)
Poor Norway, they must be saying
If all cars with internal combustion engine will be banned, where do we go?
Plot twist: since many manufacturers are going electric and hybrid, petrol cars in 2025 will be like manuals today
I hope not though
And I know that hybrids use petrol too
No petrol doesnt mean no LPG, CNG. What about those?
Meanwhile, used petrol/diesel cars will skyrocket in Norway’s market.
Super rich guy driving by in a Ferrari 250 GTO “PFFFT. Look at these peasants and their eloctronic vehicles.”
And look at this rich fool thinking he’s better. when all he is nothing but who’s nothing to those so called “Peasants”
What pollution!? That’s the bluest sky I’ve ever seen!
Well, to get people to convert to EV’s it needs to be all carrot and no stick unfortunately, if you make an electric car which fits our current lifestyle as is then people will swap no question