Norway to ban fossil-fueled cars by 2025

Norway will ban the sales of fossil fuel consuming cars by 2025, in line with a national transport plan for the elimination of emission.

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.

Liberal Party lawmaker Ola Elverstuen told the paper that his fellow lawmakers and those of the Progress Party, the Christian Democrats and the Conservative Party have reached a groundbreaking decision to meet the goals outlined in the ambitious national transport plan 2018-2029.

The plan aims to gradually ban the sales of all types of vehicles that harm the environment such as fuel-powered cars, vans, buses and heavy vehicles.

Lawmakers in the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party have reportedly corroborated Dagens Naeringsliv’s story, but representatives from the two parties on the right have told the aftenposten.no that they have not yet totally agreed with the plan.

Either way, the ban on petrol and diesel consuming vehicles, or even a significant reduce in their sales in the next decade, would make the Scandinavian country one of the most ecologically progressive countries on the planet, reports say.

Norway, currently one of the world’s largest oil exporters, already has the highest percentage of electric vehicle market share of any country, with 24 percent of new vehicles being powered by electric drive trains.

EA