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Norway set to phase out petrol and diesel cars by 2025

Norway set to phase out petrol and diesel cars by 2025

By 2025, Norway have planned to phase out sales of new petrol and diesel cars by using a tax system called, ‘Polluter Pays’ - designed to incentivise the purchase of low and zero emission vehicles.

According to the sustainable transport website Elbil, the Norwegian government have stated that targets to grow sales of low and zero emission vehicles to represent 100% of the new car market were feasible with the right policy measures.

The report states that the introduction of a strengthened green tax system would encourage people to opt for clean transport over fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

Leased EV models are already tax exempt in Norway and electric cars are allowed to use the country's bus lanes, as well as toll roads and ferries free of charge. Fossil fuel cars will be subject to charges to use these depending on their CO2 and NOX outputs.

The government’s targets will see an EV car dealership open in Milton Keynes as part of Norway’s ambitious targets to meet the ‘European Clean Power for Transport’ initiative which recommends that there should be one public available charging point for every 10 electric cars by 2020.

Electric car sales represented 22% of Norway’s market in 2015, and it expects that number to grow to 30% within the next three years. That would bring the number of electric cars running in Norway to 250,000 resulting in the country having 25,000 public charging points.

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