[zumatic]

Bans have been proposed in Holland from 2025 (http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/03/only-electric-...) and Norway (http://electrek.co/2016/06/03/norway-gasoline-powered-car-ba...), but it's very early days -- these are only kite-flying exercises, not serious attempts at legislation.

[Coding_Cat]

We already have bans on certain cars in the Netherlands for example Utrecht does not allow diesel engines in the city center (Dutch source: https://www.utrecht.nl/milieu/luchtkwaliteit/milieuzone/).

[zumatic]

Interesting -- we could do with that in London. Is it all diesel cars? The article seems to say something about Euro IV -compliant maybe being OK?

[Coding_Cat]

translated the two bullet points are (who is not allowed to enter the "enviromental zone"):

* Personal automobiles and delivery vans running on Diesel and which have received their license plate before the 1st of Jan. 2001.

* Trucks (of the profesional-logistics variety) which are not emmision standard IV compliant.

Note that this is not a country wide thing, but just the province of Utrecht[1]. There might be different restrictions for different cities, if any.

[1]: Utrecht is a city in the province Utrecht, like NYC, NY or Uppsala, Uppsala for the Swedes.