---
title: "Norway Might Ban the Sale of New Gas-Powered Cars by 2025"
description: "The latest in Norway's attempts to achieve a green-car utopia."
date: "2016-06-06"
modified: "2016-06-06"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/3841/norway-might-ban-the-sale-of-new-gas-powered-cars-by-2025"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Electric Cars"
  - "norway"
---

# Norway Might Ban the Sale of New Gas-Powered Cars by 2025

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Norwegian lawmakers have agreed on a ban that would prohibit the sale of gasoline cars after the year 2025, [*Dagens Næringsliv*](<https://www.dn.no/nyheter/politikkSamfunn/2016/06/02/2144/Motor/frp-vil-fjerne-bensinbilene?_l>) reports. [*Electrek*](<https://electrek.co/2016/06/03/norway-gasoline-powered-car-ban-2025/>) says that the reported agreement comes after months of discussions between the country's divided political groups.

If all goes as planned, the law would allow for only electric- and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to be sold in Norway. The ongoing explosion of various alternative-powertrain vehicle options on the market should aid in making this a possibility.

Though *Dagens Næringsliv* reports that the agreement is solid, as [*Electrek*](<https://electrek.co/2016/06/03/norway-gasoline-powered-car-ban-2025/>) points out, two of Norway's major conservative political parties have told [*Aftenposten.no*](<https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/politikk/DN-Frp_-Hoyre_-KrF-og-Venstre-har-mal-om-salgsstopp-av-bensin--og-dieselbiler-i-2025---Frp-og-Hoyre-Det-stemmer-ikke---Venstre-Joda_-det-stemmer-199092b.html>) that they are not yet in agreement with the ban. So, although it's moving along, there are still a few more hurdles. Politics will be politics.

Unsurprisingly, Tesla CEO and electric car fanboy Elon Musk has already started to celebrate this anti-gas victory. Slightly prematurely, since nothing has been officially set in stone just yet.

https://twitter.com/_/status/738805691528318976

This is the most recent news on Norway's push for emissions free transportation. *The Drive* previously reported on how Oslo, Norway's capital, [wants to ban cars by 2019](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/574/oslo-wants-to-be-car-free-in-four-years>), and on the [massive tax incentives](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/1097/norway-is-using-cold-cash-to-get-drivers-into-evs>) the country offers those who buy electric car. Considering that electric cars have an impressive [24 percent market share](<https://www.motortrend.com/news/report-norway-might-ban-sales-gas-powered-cars-2025/>) in Norway, it seems like the country is using the right tricks to get motorists to convert to the green ways.

With Norway being one of the [world's biggest oil exporters](<https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/>), it's interesting to see the country take such a promising stance toward non-gasoline powered vehicles. Power to them.

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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