The European Union approved a deal that will lead to the phaseout of sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2035.
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Norway is both Western Europe's largest producer of fossil fuels and the leading adopter of electric vehicles: just under 80 percent of new cars sold in 2022 were electric.Britain, Israel and Singapore plan to ban the sale of new vehicles with internal combustion engines in 2030. The world's top polluter with the world's largest auto market, China has set waypoints towards eliminating new fossil fuel cars. It aims for battery electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles to account for 20 percent of sales in 2025. It aims for them to account for a majority by 2035.
Despite being the home of Tesla, the United States has a long way to go. Sales of purely electric vehicles represented only 5.8 percent of the market in 2022.
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