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Politicians have said things, but no laws have been passed yet - and these laws can be (and have been in the past) changed.

In the immortal words of former French president Jacques Chirac :

"Promises only bind those who believe them."

2040 is a long way away. very easy to pass laws that take effect after you retire. and very easy to change them after you retire as well.

In Norway it's 2025. Still too long? :)

When your country has only 5 million people and is a top petroleum extractor and exporter, sure, it's easy to subsidize electric vehicles. Realistically it should be 2020.

they also dont have a car industry so nothing to loose

Those who will look for opportunity; those who don't seek excuses.

This only concerns passenger cars, not trucks, possibly not even vans. And the discussion is still ongoing.

In the 1990s, the CA state gov. wanted 10% of the cars on the road to be EVs by 2000.

Wow, was that ever effective.

That's interesting, do you have a link to the law they passed?

Will hybrids be permitted though?