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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.

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/).

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?

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.