<story><title>Norway bans gas cars in 2025 but trends point toward 100%EV sales as early April</title><url>https://electrek.co/2021/09/23/norway-bans-gas-cars-in-2025-but-trends-point-toward-100-ev-sales-as-early-as-april/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lastofthemojito</author><text>Headline: Norway bans gas cars in 2025&lt;p&gt;Quotes from the article: 
&amp;quot;This has led Norway to have the earliest target for the phaseout of new gas vehicle sales in the world – 2025&amp;quot;
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&amp;quot;(which, to be clear, is not a legal requirement yet, more of a soft target agreed upon by Norway’s government)&amp;quot;
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&amp;quot;Norway might even allow limited numbers of gas car sales to continue past 2025&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So Norway isn&amp;#x27;t banning gas cars in 2025.  Norway also likely isn&amp;#x27;t banning sales of new gas cars in 2025, they&amp;#x27;re incentivizing people to buy electric.  But Electrek&amp;#x27;s gotta get those clicks.</text></comment>
<story><title>Norway bans gas cars in 2025 but trends point toward 100%EV sales as early April</title><url>https://electrek.co/2021/09/23/norway-bans-gas-cars-in-2025-but-trends-point-toward-100-ev-sales-as-early-as-april/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fallingknife</author><text>Typical with these gas car future bans.  The politicians set a date at which they assume EV&amp;#x27;s will be technically and economically superior and have already won in the market.  Then they will credit their ban for the transition, even though they have done nothing.  If they are wrong and gas cars are still being sold near the deadline, they will quietly extend it, because they are never going to actually force a sizeable population to give up their cars and lose an election.</text></comment>