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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I live there… 😭
There’s Norway they can do this
As a Norwegian i can safely say that this is just another day at the Norwegian government…
Should this go through, however, i will no longer call myself Norwegian.
I might have to dishonor my family and become a Swede. I’m kind of looking forward to it…
how else is raymond in his a8 gonna get through town when there are other cars there? ;)
Elon be like:
My thoughts are with all Norway petrolheads
Being a Car-guy Problem#648885597578
Ontario’s Liberal Premier is coming up with something along these lines as well. Governments are becoming to ambitious in my point of view.
no, not really.. its some ret*ed politican who sais all kinds of rubbish, not long ago she said she wanted to ban cars, then she took a taxi home from the meeting.. her co-worker has the same oppinion and he drives everywhere in an audi a8 that has studded tiers. Most Norwegians hate them and i just dont understand how they are in power.. they even said that ppl need to take public transport more, so they increased the price of it… very smart right?
dont worry…
Elon Musk, seriously?
Meanwhile in Singapore…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/news/trans-canada-highway/singapore-taxes-tesla-owner-14550-because-his-model-s-is-a-high-polluter/article29176596/