Norway's Progress Party wants the country's government to drop all targets for electric cars. Blue. that all new cars in the country already next year must only run on electricity.
In recent years, Norway has worked towards a goal that motorists may only buy new electric cars. And that all new cars in the country from 2025 must only run on electricity.
But now the Progress Party (Frp) wants to scrap that goal. The party instead proposes a new focus on free choice of vehicle, which also means making it easier to buy cars with petrol, diesel and hybrid engines.
The FRP plans to put forward a representative proposal in the Storting, which will abolish the requirement that all public purchases of choir carriages must be zero-emission choir carriages.
The proposal applies to both passenger cars, light vans and city buses. According to the party, it is about ensuring greater flexibility and preparedness in the transport sector.
The proposal has created debate, and the leader of the Green Party De Gronne (MDG), Arild Hermstad, has been thrown into the mess. He believes that it is a step in the wrong direction.
This is written by Norwegian TV2 .
– Norway is at the forefront of the transition to electric cars, and there is no reason why we should not go all the way. Facilitating the further sale of fossil fuel cars is pointless.
Both because electric cars are mostly better than fossil cars, and because there will still be fossil cars to buy on the used market, says Hermstad to Broom.
He also emphasizes that it is primarily in and around Oslo where car traffic is densest, and that therefore more emphasis should be placed on public transport rather than promoting the use of more fossil-fuel cars.
The FRP's proposal has also been criticized for potentially undermining Norway's overall climate goals. Hermstad points out that the transport sector accounts for a large part of the country's CO₂ emissions.
And he questions how emissions can be reduced without maintaining ambitious targets for electric cars and other climate measures.
Earlier this year, Norway's Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold had to go out in the media to say that the government does not intend to ban everything other than electric cars from 1 January 2025. Read more about it here .
