ANALYSIS London—Europe, home to the world’s highest concentration of diesel cars, appears increasingly keen to call time on the use of conventional cars in a bid to clean up its congested, pollution-prone roads, not to mention its urban air. A groundswell of plans to ban sales of new gasoline and diesel cars are driving political momentum for electric vehicles (EVs) and have raised the stakes for Europe’s refining industry. In the same month, both Britain and France have now laid out the future divorce terms with the internal-combustion engine (ICE) for 2040, eager to bolster climate efforts and growing concerns over air quality. With Germany, Norway and the Netherlands mulling even swifter deadlines to sideline ICE cars, Europe will prove a key testing ground for the expected transformational rise of EVs.
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