Electrek:
Norway’s four main political parties have been discussing a possible ban on new gasoline-powered car sales (diesel or petrol) for quite some time, but they were not able to come to an understanding until now, according to a new report from Dagens Næringsliv, an important newspaper in Norway.
The four main political parties, both from the right and the left, have agreed on a new energy policy that will include a ban on new gasoline-powered car sales as soon as 2025 – making it one of the most aggressive timeline of its kind for such a policy. What’s probably most remarkable here is that Norway is currently one of the world’s largest Oil exporters.
There’s little chance of many other countries matching Norway’s timeline for any number of reasons but, going forward, governmental action similar to this might be required in order to make a significant leap in electric vehicle sales.
2025 is the sort of timeline that says “We want to do this”.
2035+ is the sort of timeline that says “We hope someone does this eventually”.
That’s Norway. Repeatedly a leader on this front.
Fascinating development. But there’s a difference between intention and implementation, as MichaelQ is pointing out. Electric cars are such a new thing that I don’t have a great sense of the battery issue, and I’m not sure anyone else does either. My brother has a minivan that’s at 180k miles and the mechanic says you should expect that particular maker’s engines to get to 200k miles. But batteries are batteries. When your electric car is that old, what’s your battery capacity become? Do electric cars push us toward more-disposable cars which have to be replaced more often? And if we keep a car for a long time (I tend to keep mine 7-9 years), do we need to factor in an expensive set of new batteries every few years? And what do we do with the old batteries? Keep in mind that electric vehicles are only as green as the municipality’s electric generation (BBC had an article about the guy who brought his EV to Singapore and got nailed with polluter fines because the electric company has such non-green electricity production).
Also, here’s something that’s never occurred to me to wonder, because so far I’ve never had batteries as huge as in an EV: if my battery is old and it now has 50% of its original capacity, is it less efficient as a result? Is its effective “MPG” lower? Its range is lower, but what about the consumed-energy/miles-driven ratio? Or is it simply sucking down and storing a smaller amount of electricity with a similar efficiency to use the less amount of stored energy?
Sounds like good policy to me.
That is courage.
The mantra is, “If it’s green it must be good.”
But not a lot of critique.
Thanks for raising them in your post.
Most important take away is that a full political spectrum of parties can get stuff done when they aren’t all morally bankrupt. sigh
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