China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's
new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said.
China, the world's largest
new -
car market, will institute
sales quotas for electric
cars and plug - in hybrids in 2019, and some European countries are mulling outright bans on
sales of
new gasoline and diesel
cars.