Norway targets 100 per cent electric car sales by 2025

Norway has set out ambitious plans for 100 per cent of new car sales to be a zero emission, electric vehicles by 2025.

The proposal has been included in the National Transport Plan for 2018-2029 and, if the plans are fully implemented, would mean that all new passenger cars, buses and light commercial vehicles would be either battery electric of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles within the next 10 years.

The country already purchases almost one in every four plug-in vehicles sold, and these plans, which are still subject to parliamentary approval, would cement its position as a front runner in the uptake of ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs).

The proposals also include plans for all heavier class vans to be zero emission by 2030, as well as 75 per cent of new long-distance buses and 50 per cent of new trucks.

The country has incentivised zero-emission vehicles to drive uptake over the past few years, and officials have confirmed that these will remain in the immediate future, with plans to gradually taper them off as uptake increases.

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