In true forward-thinking Scandinavian fashion, Norway’s four main political parties have come to an agreement to ban the sale of gas-powered cars by the year 2025 according to Norwegian newspaper, Dagens Næringsliv.
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This AFP photo taken on August 19, 2014, shows electric cars crowding the bus lane (L) during the morning rush hour toward Norway’a capital, Oslo.
Lawmakers from both sides of the political spectrum are united on the plan and have agreed that Norwegian cars would only run on green energy by 2025, the local outlet Dagens Naeringsliv reported on Friday.
The story even led to Norway receiving a pat on the back from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors – a company known for its designing and manufacturing of electric cars. 24% of the country’s new vehicles are electric-powered, so it seems that many residents are open to the idea of electric cars. “What an amazingly awesome country”, the Tesla founder tweets.
If passed, it would be more ambitious than the Labour Party’s proposal that no new diesel or petrol cars should be sold by 2030, and particularly significant because a large proportion of Norway’s funds rely on the petroleum industry.
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Fixing the Google translation, the parties have agreed that the proposed National Transport plan for 2018-2029 will set “targets for the number of low- and zero-emission vehicles”, and that some of those targets will be implemented by 2025. Norway isn’t the first country to make such a huge change.
