In recent weeks India, The Netherlands, and Norway have announced that they are considering banning sales of new non-electric cars from 2025 onwards. Now there are reports that Austria is joining this group and it wants to get even sooner to the all-electric car era: in 2020. The news underlines an important fact that misses in most climate change models: Introduction of innovation more often doesn’t follow linear projections. In other words: The shift to clean energy can happen much faster.
Austria joins countries aiming for rapid ban gas and diesel cars
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