Half of all new cars in Norway are now electric or hybrid

I was reading an article some time ago in the World and Press Business magazine and it talks about the electricity policy of Norway. I thought you might be interested because electricity policy is a current topic.

Basically, what it says is that half of all new registered cars in Norway are electric or hybrid. 

The first thing that is mentioned is that 51% of the new registrations in 2017 were electric or hybrid cars. Norway also has the highest per capita number of all electric cars in the world. The author reported that the transport sector is one of the biggest challenges for climate policy. One of the goals of the government is to reduce the CO2 emissions to 40 % until 2030. The government of Norway also agreed to ban the sale of gasoline and diesel motorized cars starting in 2025. So, they will reduce carbon dioxide emissions of new cars to 85 grams per kilometre by 2020. What puzzled me most was that this goal has almost achieved.

In my opinion to ban the gasoline and diesel powered cars wouldn’t be able to pass through, because some people don’t have so much money to buy such an expansive electric car. But if the car industry reduces the price for an electric motorized car it will be possible to implement this agreement.

So what do you think about the electricity and climate policy of Norway?

English	Deutsch
electricity policy	Strom-/Energiepolitik
to ban	verbieten
gasoline	Benzin
carbon dioxide emissions	Kohlenstoffdioxid-Ausstoß
achieved	erreicht