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This country went 100% electric vehicles overnight with a drastic approach
Laos did something no other country has tried: it banned the import of new gas and diesel passenger cars outright. As of June 1, nearly every new car cleared for import has to be electric. It’s the most aggressive EV mandate on the planet right now, and it has almost nothing to do with consumer demand.
1 min readFred Lambert
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Laos did something no other country has tried: it banned the import of new gas and diesel passenger cars outright. As of June 1, nearly every new car cleared for import has to be electric. It’s the most aggressive EV mandate on the planet right now, and it has almost nothing to do with consumer demand.
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Laos did something no other country has tried: it banned the import of new gas and diesel passenger cars outright. As of June 1, nearly every new car cleared for import has to be electric. It’s the most aggressive EV mandate on the planet right now, and it has almost nothing to do with consumer demand.
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