Denmark plans to ban sales of gas-powered cars by 2030

[TexasTowelie]

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Denmark will ban the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines by 2030, the government announced on Tuesday.

"Diesel and petrol cars in Denmark must be the past. The future is green," Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said, according to Euractiv.

"In just 12 years, we will prohibit the sale of new diesel and petrol cars. And in 17 years, every new car in Denmark must be an electric car or other forms of zero-emissions car," Rasmussen added.

The plan to ban internal combustion vehicles still needs parliamentary approval and will go up for a vote next week.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/10/03/Denmark-plans-to-ban-sales-of-gas-powered-cars-by-2030/2881538546126/

[packman]

1. Love the Danes

This has got to send a shiver down the backs of fossil fuel car makers - of course they have to find a way to make all that electricity green.

[MichMan]

2. Confused on the deadlines

Trying to figure out what this means. If all diesel and gas powered new car sales are prohibited in 12 years, what will then be changed in 5 more years? Do they mean hybrids ?



"In just 12 years, we will prohibit the sale of new diesel and petrol cars. And in 17 years, every new car in Denmark must be an electric car or other forms of zero-emissions car,"