---
title: "Elon Musk Wants Norway to Ban Gas-Powered Cars By 2025"
description: "Norway is aiming to cut more of its carbon emissions with a new legislation proposing to ban all gas-powered cars by 2025, and it may come as no surprise that Tesla CEO Elon Musk supports the idea."
date: "2016-06-09"
modified: "2016-06-13"
authors:
  - name: "Charmaine Caparas"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/charmaine"
url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-wants-norway-to-ban-gas-powered-cars-by-2025"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "Ban Cars"
  - "electric cars"
  - "elon musk"
  - "norway"
  - "renewable energy"
  - "tesla"
---

# Elon Musk Wants Norway to Ban Gas-Powered Cars By 2025

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/A-Shutterstock.jpg>)

Norway may no longer have gas-powered vehicles by 2025—that is, if a [new piece of legislation](<http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/norway-to-ban-the-sale-of-all-fossil-fuel-based-cars-by-2025-and-replace-with-electric-vehicles-a7065616.html>) gets ratified.

The proposal seeks to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles in order for the country to reach zero vehicle emissions by 2025. And although many are skeptical about whether the legislation actually has a chance of passing, some individuals are pushing for it...including Elon Musk.

Understandably, this new legislation has the [Tesla](<https://www.teslamotors.com>) CEO pretty excited. After hearing of the news on Norway’s impending ban on gas-powered cars, Musk posted on Twitter a photo of the business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, with the headline, "Stop sales of diesel and gasoline vehicles in 2025," and added his own, “You guys rock!”

![Untitled](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Untitled-600x724.jpg>)

So far, four of Norway’s political parties have given their thumbs-up on the ambitious plan, but have neither finalized the legislation yet, nor given any word on when it might become law.

Still, this move from a giant oil and natural gas-producing country is laudable—oil and gas accounts for roughly 39% of Norway’s exports.

To date, 24% of Norway’s cars are already electric, and the [country is spending $923 million](<https://futurism.com/norways-capital-city-oslo-to-ban-all-cars-by-2019>) to create new bike highways to usher riders around cities.