The Electric: Look for Gasoline Cars to be Crowding Roads for Decades Longer

On Tuesday, Paul Sankey, a longtime oil analyst based in Brooklyn, N.Y., dropped by a local dealer to turn in a traditional Audi sedan he had leased. But as he did so, a new subcompact SUV from the German automaker caught his eye—a white combustion model he thought his wife would like. Sankey signed a new lease for the SUV.