From 2030 on, no new cars with internal combustion engines are to be sold in Sweden. This has announced Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. In the meantime, the country will significantly expand the charging and refueling infrastructure for alternative drive vehicles.

The move away from petrol or diesel vehicles should help reduce Sweden's CO2 emissions. His country wants to strengthen its efforts to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, said Löfven.

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The environmental organization Greenpeace praised the announcement of the government. Sweden is the tenth country that has set an exit date for diesel and petrol, said Greenpeace traffic expert Marion Tiemann.

Thus, the pressure on the auto industry to radically change their model range. Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler and Co. earn most of their money with conventional vehicles. But they are already investing billions in alternative drives. In the coming years, many high-performance electric cars will come on the market.

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Sweden's neighboring state of Norway does not want to allow new cars with fossil fuels from 2025 onwards. A tough ban is apparently not planned - Oslo relies on subsidies and other incentives for the purchase of electric cars. As early as 2018, 31.2 percent of all new cars sold were pure e-cars. If you add the plug-in hybrids, the electric ratio was 49.1 percent.

Germany is behind with alternative drives

In Denmark, the 2030 government wants to ban the sale of diesel and gasoline vehicles. By 2050, the country wants to completely dispense with fossil fuels. Iceland has also set the year 2030 as a target for the burnout. Britain and France want to follow in 2040.

The Federal Government rejects a fixed exit date for the internal combustion engine. Germany continues to lag far behind in alternative drives. Only one percent of all new registrations in 2017 were for pure electric cars. That's about 36,000 cars.