Soon to be on life support . . .
"France, the UK, and more recently Scotland, all announced efforts to ban petrol and gas-powered cars in favor of electric vehicles.
While some of those efforts could have a significant impact, none would be greater than if the largest car market in the world, China, would do the same.
Now the Chinese government is also reportedly considering a deadline to go all-electric, which would virtually be the end of the internal combustion engine.
Bloomberg reported that a high-ranking government official confirmed that they are working on the timetable for such a deadline:"

https://electrek.co/2017/09/10/china-deadline-all-electric-end-internal-combustion-engines/