09 May 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Security 91tv Germany must speed up the electrification of its rail network for military purposes as well as for environmental reasons, said the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) ...
04 Mar 2025, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv Following a 27 percent reduction in sales of new battery electric cars (BEV) in Germany in 2024, a total of 1.65 million BEVs were registered in the country by 1 January 2025, showed existing ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine In a parliamentary hearing, economists have largely backed the German government鈥檚 insistence on gradually phasing out subsidies for diesel fuel ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Tagesspiegel / Focus Online / T-Online Following weeks of disruptive street blockades, German farmers have threatened to ramp up protests against the planned cuts to agricultural diesel subsidies. The president ...
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26 May 2025, 11:06 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump extends deadline for 50% tariffs on EU goods to July 9 U.S. president Donald Trump said he would extend the deadline for the European Union to face 50 percent tariffs until July 9 after a phone call with ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity 91tv German companies and public authorities should use a mix of renewables, battery storage, fuel cells and microgrids in the event of a power cut, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:51 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Government Handelsblatt A report by the Federal Court of Auditors has slammed the German government over its failure to reduce subsidies as promised, including those that are harmful to the climate, ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices 91tv The German government鈥檚 reduction of energy taxes on fuels between June and August 2022 to soften the impact of rising prices due to the energy crisis has not been fully passed ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:32 Expert Ferdinand Dudenh枚ffer Professor and Director, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Transport Cars Edgar Meza Cars Focus Online Once praised as the 鈥渕iracle 别苍驳颈苍别鈥�, the diesel motor is slowly disappearing in Europe despite its ...
16 Aug 2024, 13:05 Jack McGovan Cars Handelsblatt Falling sales of combustion engine cars in China, the world鈥檚 largest market for passenger cars, is having a negative impact on the German car industry, reports Handelsblatt. Data by automotive market ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:58 Hannah Naylor Transport Hydrogen 91tv / Der Spiegel Germany saw the commencement of the world鈥檚 first regular operation of hydrogen-powered trains this week, making "railway history," operator company EVB said. ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv Charging an electric vehicle at home costs German drivers just half the price of refuelling a conventional car with petrol, according to聽 an analysis 聽by price comparison website Verivox. 鈥淭丑别 ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:22 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Cars Rheinische Post The lower ...
29 Jul 2022, 11:42 Edgar Meza Cars Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-month petrol and diesel discount that has been in effect since 1 June has been largely passed on to consumers, but it is ecologically counterproductive and also ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:24 Jennifer Collins Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt Every second e lectric car sold in Germany in the first quarter of 2025 was made by Vol kswagen, while two out of three newly register ed e-vehicles came from German manufacturers, ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:14 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Demand for purely battery-electric vehicles (BEV) dropped dramatically in Germany during the first half of 2024 and the country鈥檚 automotive sector is bracing for a gloomy full year as high prices and ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:10 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv Air pollution with nitrogen dioxide has fallen below legal limit values in most cities across ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country鈥檚 oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:19 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Cars Die Welt Diesel cars are regaining market share in Germany for the first time since the 鈥榙ieselgate鈥� scandal broke in 2015, Nikolaus Doll reports for Die Welt. In January, more than 34 percent ...
The government鈥檚 diesel deal will not tame the anger of diesel drivers because only one in 10 are likely to be offered incentives to trade in their old car against a more recent model, writes Holger Steltzner in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:17 Jennifer Collins Cars 91tv The number of聽battery-electric cars registered in Germany rose by 39.1 percent to 1.4 million in 2023, while the number of hybrids now stands at 2.9 million, according to the latest figures from ...
23 May 2024, 14:41 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jack McGovan Cars Hydrogen Handelsblatt The head of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), Hildegard M眉ller, has called on the government to expand ...
Diesel technology can in theory help protect the climate, but the average diesel car in Germany hardly emits less CO鈧� than the average petrol car, Federal Environment Agency (UBA) president Maria Krautzberger told S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Efficiency gains ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:52 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background The German government鈥檚 planned relief package to shield consumers from rising energy costs exacerbated by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine is facing increasing criticism partly due to ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv A new report commissioned by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Bertelsmann Stiftung and carried out by the Forum 脰kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (F脰S) economic think tank, criticises the ...
The landmark court ruling on diesel driving bans causes 鈥渁larm in diesel country,鈥� because 60 to 80 percent of all cars sold by Audi, Daimler, and BMW in Germany in the past years had a diesel engine, writes Thomas Fromm in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭his ...
28 Jul 2017, 00:00 [CORRECTION, due to mistake in transcription: in reply to 4th question, diesel cars have "always been allowed to emit more NOx than petrol cars", not CO2] On 2 August, the CEOs of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major car manufacturers will meet ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars rbb24 The government of the federal state of Berlin has decided to ban older diesel cars from eight roads in the city and create dozens of zones with a 30 kilometre per hour speed limit, public ...
The Berlin administrative court has ordered 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital to introduce driving bans for diesel vehicles on parts of eight roads suffering from exceedingly high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) pollution, reports the public broadcaster rbb24 in two ...
The interest in diesel cars has dropped substantially in Germany as the engine technology has come under fire for not abiding by emissions standards, bild.de reports. According to a survey by car sales website AutoScout24, only 14 percent of respondents ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:11 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in relatively new diesel cars are still much higher ...
Environmental Action Germany (DUH) is pushing for driving bans in polluted cities of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state, for all diesel cars that do not meet the Euro 6 emissions standard, the environmental NGO says in a press ...
The debate over driving bans for diesel cars and the ongoing diesel emissions fraud scandal involving German carmakers have hit the technology鈥檚 image hard. Only 13 percent of respondents in a survey said they would now opt for a diesel car, Focus Online ...
07 May 2025, 13:03 S枚ren Amelang Elections & Politics 91tv The election of Friedrich Merz as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new chancellor in an unprecedented second parliamentary vote was greeted with relief by the country鈥檚 energy, industry, and ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Agriculture Society Tagesspiegel Germany risks becoming as polarised as the U.S. as farmers have blocked roads with tractors in massive protests over cuts to diesel subsidies, agriculture minister Cem 脰zdemir said, ...
03 May 2022, 12:28 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Frankfurter Rundschau 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister is planning further reductions in biofuel production in view of growing food shortages due to the war in Ukraine, Frankfurter Rundschau reports. The war is 鈥渁 ...
German car manufacturers 鈥渙utbid each other鈥� with buyer鈥檚 bonuses for customers switching away from an old diesel car, writes Henrik Mortsiefer for Tagesspiegel. Volkswagen launched its 鈥渆nvironmental programme鈥�, promising up to 10,000 euros on purchasing ...
Drivers of diesel cars have apparently ignored the first diesel driving bans in Germany that took effect on 31 May on two busy roads in the city of Hamburg, website bild.de reports. 鈥淐ommuter traffic flows as usual鈥�, the article says, adding that police ...
20 Aug 2024, 13:26 The transport sector receives by far the biggest share out of all of Germany's government subsidies that are harmful to the climate, according to a report commissioned by the economy ministry. In their coalition agreement, the ...
Diesel engines no longer qualify as being more climate-friendly and are more expensive than other engine technologies like hybrid or petrol, meaning that their falling market share is no bad news for the climate, the International Council on Clean ...
Seventy German municipalities exceeded nitrogen oxide air pollution limits in 2017, down from 90 the previous year, writes the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). This development points in 鈥渢he right direction,鈥� said UBA President Maria Krautzberger, 鈥渂ut ...
Luxury carmaker Porsche will no longer produce cars with diesel engines and will instead focus on expanding its product range with electric or hybrid vehicles, the German company has said in a press release. Porsche said it did not want to 鈥渄emonise鈥� ...
Diesel cars should lose their privileged tax treatment in Germany to release funds for the development of more environmentally friendly engine technologies, VW CEO Matthias M眉ller said in an interview with Handelsblatt. M眉ller said investing in other ...
The German Chancellery and the transport ministry favour providing incentives to buy new and cleaner cars over retrofitting older diesel cars to comply with emissions limits in inner cities, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. According to sources ...
Germany on average consumed 121 million litres of diesel fuel every day in 2016, resulting in a record share of diesel in total fuel consumption of 65 percent, reports 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Diesel sales increased 30 percent from ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung An increasing number of cruise ships have switched their propellant from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diesel fuel because of high LNG prices,聽 reports 聽newswire dpa in an article ...
The conversion to a new emissions test called the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) could cost German manufacturers billions of euros, Martin Seiwert writes in the WirtschaftsWoche. The German car industry has invested tens of ...
The German government praises diesel technology as an important component of climate protection in the transport sector- but this claim is more and more contested by transport and climate researchers, Bernhard P枚tter writes in Tageszeitung (taz). Claiming ...
Germany is turning its back on diesel as car scrapping premiums encourage drivers to buy new models and get rid of their older, dirtier vehicles. However, instead of being scrapped, many diesel autos are being sold in eastern Europe and Africa, Sebastian ...
08 Jan 2024, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Technology Dlf Alternatives to fossil fuel-based agricultural machinery are scarce and often fall behind their emissions-intensive counterparts in practical tests, says electric engineer Michael Sterner in ...
German car manufacturers are working to sell ever more diesel vehicles in a bid to comply with stricter EU CO 2 emission limits, risking 鈥渄isaster鈥�, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. Diesel-fuelled cars produce less ...
The market share of newly registered cars fitted with diesel engines 聽in Germany may have dropped sharply because the technology鈥檚 reputation is seriously tarnished, but diesel fuel sales rose to a record high this year, report Max H盲gler and Jan ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars German Association of the Automotive Industry The German carmaker association VDA says the share of diesel cars has to rise again in Germany in order to meet the country鈥檚 ...
VW head Michael M眉ller has caused a stir among industry representatives by saying diesel cars should lose their tax privilege in Germany, Martin Murphy writes in Handelsblatt. 鈥淲hy does he let this genie out of its bottle?鈥� a manager of a German VW ...
27 Feb 2018, 00:00 German cities may ban diesel cars from polluted areas following a landmark court ruling. In a major blow to German carmakers still heavily relying on diesel car sales, and a victory for environmentalists, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 top courts ...
11 Jan 2019, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Cities Kieler Nachrichten The northern German city of Kiel is about to test an extraction system that removes nitrogen oxide (NOx) from the atmosphere to reduce pollution and avoid driving ...
In a further setback for government efforts to get the diesel crisis under control, the regional administrative court in Western German city Cologne has ordered city authorities in Cologne and in neighbouring Bonn to introduce driving bans for older ...
People living in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 inner cities are the winners of the landmark court ruling on diesel driving bans, writes Malte Kreutzfeld in a commentary in the tageszeitung. 鈥淚t is no longer allowed to ignore their right to breathe clean air. In case of doubt ...
The landmark court ruling on diesel driving bans is 鈥渓unacy,鈥� writes Holger Appel in a commentary for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. A ban on the 鈥渁llegedly dangerous鈥� diesel technology is unnecessary, because nitrogen dioxide measurements should be ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:25 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Policy ARD / Die Welt Germany's environment minister Steffi Lemke is moving away from her opposition to the use of biodiesel, at least in the agricultural sector, public broadcaster ARD reports. While there are ...
Ending diesel tax benefits in the EU would significantly help decrease CO鈧� and nitrogen oxide emissions in road transport, because diesel vehicle users are very price sensitive, the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) ...
Orders for new Audi cars suggest that the decline in diesel sales is coming to an end, according to company CEO Rupert Stadler. 鈥淲e can see in our order book that diesel sales stabilise, and in some countries they even increase,鈥� Stadler told Die Welt. ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:29 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Deutsche Bahn (DB) has ordered up to 400 electro-diesel hybrid locomotives from Siemens for its cargo fleet in a ...
A large majority of Germans is not satisfied with the way the federal government aims to prevent diesel driving bans in inner cities, according to a survey by online pollster YouGov, commissioned by news agency dpa. About two-thirds of respondents said ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Cars EU 91tv A ruling by the EU鈥檚 top court that Germany failed to clean up the air in several cities for years is a 鈥渟lap in the face鈥� for the government, said NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH). The ...
Many diesel cars affected by the looming driving bans in Germany for having too high exhaust emissions are being exported to eastern Europe and especially to Poland, where anti-pollution policies still are less severe, the NGO Transport & Environment ...
German sports car manufacturer Porsche is looking at the possibility to phase out the diesel version for its SUV Cayenne with the upcoming new model, writes Susanne Preu脽 for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淚n regards to diesel, we are examining ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:42 Jessica Bateman Bioenergy Transport Die Zeit 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national railway provider Deutsche Bahn has announced plans to run all trains on biofuels by 2040, newspaper Die Zeit reports. The group says it is phasing out diesel and wants to ...
28 Jul 2017, 00:00 On 2 August, the CEOs of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major car manufacturers will meet with federal and state government representatives to discuss ways to reduce pollution from diesel cars. Recent cartel allegations shed a new light on the meeting鈥檚 ...
As a result of the diesel crisis, used car sales were down 1.9 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year, according to the German Association for Motor Trade and Repair (ZDK). 鈥淎uto dealers are deeply unsettled,"聽ZDK president J眉rgen Karpinski ...
30 May 2023, 13:36 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Cars Tagesschau New cars registered in the first four months of 2023 are on average emitting significantly more CO2 than those registered in 2022, writes public broadcaster ARD. Data from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
Diesel engines will have 鈥� a renaissance in the foreseeable future 鈥� and shed its currently-tarnished image as a particularly polluting technology, VW head Michael M眉ller said at the important trade fair Geneva International Motor Show, the Frankfurter ...
The rapid spread of diesel engines in Europe over the past two decades thanks to subsidies has not lowered CO 2 emissions, according to a study by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Trier University, and the International Council on ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:38 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Focus Online Despite a reduction in road traffic, nitrogen oxide ...
Free public transport, blue badges, hardware retrofits- every day a different solution is touted to reconcile cars with the environment in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heated diesel debate, writes Marc Beise in a commentary in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. But a congestion ...
In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung鈥檚 Kerstin Schwenn, German minister of transport Andreas Scheuer, a member of the conservative CSU party, said the retrofitting of millions of diesel cars to make them cleaner and reduce emissions ...
The VW emissions scandal and聽 looming driving bans 聽in Stuttgart and other cities are beginning to have a serious impact on diesel car sales, reports Philipp Vetter in a front-page article for newspaper Die Welt. The share of diesel vehicles in new car ...
The debate about the future of the diesel engine in Germany leaves car leasing providers still largely unfazed, writes Martin Gropp in an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. A survey by the newspaper had shown that companies were closely observing ...
In an opinion piece for Die Welt, Nikolaus Doll says Volkswagen CEO Matthias M眉ller was wrong to attack tax breaks for diesel cars in hope of promoting e-cars. Abandoning diesel in favour of e-cars will not save VW, or take pressure off the wider industry ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:31 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has begun to electrify rail lines in the north of the country with an innovative new electrical infrastructure that will charge battery-powered trains and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) has presented his proposal to reduce emissions from diesel cars in German cities to the chancellor and the heads of carmakers BMW, Volkswagen, and Daimler, Daniel Delhaes, Markus Fasse, and Martin Murphy ...
The average diesel passenger car on 贰耻谤辞辫别鈥檚 roads emits less CO鈧� than a comparable petrol car, but the compliance cost of meeting the European Union鈥檚 CO2 reduction target for new cars by 2025 would be up to 280 euros per vehicle lower with fewer diesel ...
The German state missed out on about 8 billion euros in taxes in 2015 because diesel is taxed at a lower rate than petrol, writes Dagmar Dehmer in Tagesspiegel, citing a federal government鈥檚 reply to a parliamentary inquiry by Green member of the ...
Key elements of the German government鈥檚 diesel deal have become 鈥減ractically worthless鈥� within a week, writes Nils-Viktor Sorge in a 鈥渃hronology of failure鈥� on Spiegel Online. Many carmakers continue to reject hardware retrofits, while trade-in incentives ...
The looming EU fines for excessive emissions after 2020 make it cheaper for the car industry to develop electric cars than to cling to the diesel, argues Markus Fasse in a commentary in the business daily Handelsblatt. In recent years, the car industry ...
Volkswagen considers a publicity campaign in cooperation with other carmakers to improve the image of the diesel engine, CEO Matthias M眉ller told industry publication Automobilwoche. With reference to looming diesel bans in German cities, he said modern ...
04 Oct 2018, 17:11 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has decided to reduce emissions from diesel cars in polluted cities by swapping old models for new ones and retrofitting some older cars. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer and environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
After a German top court ruled that German cities may ban diesel cars from polluted areas, the City of Hamburg announced that it would follow through with plans to introduce driving bans for older diesel vehicles on two of its most polluted roads starting ...
The driving bans for older diesel cars on two roads in Hamburg, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second largest city, might be 鈥渕iniature driving bans鈥� and not enough to curb air pollution, but they will allow other municipalities and even federal states to follow suit, Kai ...
The diesel engine is far from dead because it is the most efficient and cleanest car engine available, according to a 鈥渕anifesto鈥� by mass-daily Bild entitled 鈥淕ermany should be proud of the diesel!鈥� In a list of 鈥�10 truths that many politicians don鈥檛 dare ...
The diesel engine has little reason to celebrate its 125 th birthday, Welt Online reports. 鈥� Cheating software, driving bans, and declining prices 鈥� all tarnish the image of an invention Rudolf Diesel filed with the Imperial Patent Office in late February ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:57 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in Germany's inner cities is declining, but many urban ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:10 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv For Germany to reach its self-set target of 15 million electric vehicles on the road by the end of 2030, at least double the amount of new e-cars than in 2022 will need to be registered every year ...
The northern German city of Hamburg has begun to enforce the diesel driving ban it introduced as the country鈥檚 first city last week, the public broadcaster NDR reports. The ban that affects short stretches of two major roads in the port city and include ...
Impending driving bans for diesel cars in several German cities could spell the end for the technology in the country, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. Driving bans in Stuttgart and Munich have been substantiated in the past weeks and pending ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Transport dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany plans to electrify only around 66 kilometres of railway lines in 2025, falling well short of its targets to expand overhead electricity lines and replace diesel-powered ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 municipalities have criticised proposals by the transport ministry (BMVI) to allow cities to introduce selective driving bans for certain route sections in inner cities that grapple with high air pollution levels, Welt Online reports. 鈥淚f some ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Administrative Court has ruled that German cities are generally allowed to introduce driving bans for older diesel cars to enforce EU clean air rules as a last resort. The court upheld two decisions by local courts in Stuttgart and ...
The government of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia has strongly rejected bans on older diesel cars to improve air quality in polluted cities. 鈥�Diesel bans should be banned,鈥� the region鈥檚 Social Democrat (SPD) transport minister Michael ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Security Energate messenger / 91tv The reduction of hard coal imports from Russia to Germany has pushed up prices significantly, the German coal import association VDKI told ...
The 鈥渋ll-prepared鈥� 鈥�diesel summits鈥� organised by the federal government are not the right platform for dealing with the 鈥渄ynamic鈥� developments of the car emissions fraud scandal, Baden-Wuerttemberg鈥檚 Green state premier Winfried Kretschmann told the ...
The government鈥檚 鈥渉uge step鈥� to solve the diesel crisis is no more than a 鈥渂ig bluff,鈥� writes Markus Balser in an editorial in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The diesel deal falls far short of what is necessary to solve 鈥渙ne of the country鈥檚 largest health and ...
A court in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen has ordered the first driving ban for older diesel cars on an Autobahn, the German highway famous for its long sections without speed limits. The court ruled that the city of Essen in federal state North ...
15 Nov 2018
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government cabinet has decided on an amendment of the federal imissions law to prevent diesel driving bans in cities where nitrogen oxide limits are exceeded by 25 percent (50 micrograms NO 2 per cubic meter air instead of 40 micrograms). Under ...
05 Jul 2023, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Table.Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has agreed a higher national CO2 price for transport and heating fuels for 2024, news site Table.Media reports citing coalition sources. The ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv Germany has unveiled a package of measures aimed at providing cost relief to farmers who are under pressure to make food production more sustainable and in line with ...
The western German city of Frankfurt must introduce a ban on older diesel vehicles as part of a plan to improve air quality, the Federal Administrative Court ruled, reports news agency Reuters. The country鈥檚 financial centre must from February 2019 ban ...
No tax money should be used to finance the hardware retrofitting of older diesel vehicles, writes Markus Balser in an opinion piece in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚nstead of subsidising the ironing out of funny business, the federal government must finally ...
The diesel summit agreement from 2 August to upgrade software in five million vehicles, set up a mobility fund, and offer buyer鈥檚 bonuses can be described as 鈥淢ickey Mouse policies鈥� that may cut harmful emissions by five percent at best, Jens Thurau ...
Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer (the Christian Social Union, or CSU) wants to counter falling diesel car sales by reducing vehicle taxes on 鈥渓ow-emission Euro-6-diesel鈥� cars, reports German weekly Der Spiegel. In a separate article, Spiegel Online ...
20 Dec 2024, 10:13 Large-scale solar PV developers have not been able to overcome Nigeria鈥檚 reputation as a risky place to do business, a problem which can be seen across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite tremendous solar potential, very little of it has been ...
German companies do not plan to suddenly abandon diesel cars in their fleets, after a court ruling has opened the door for diesel bans in German cities, according to a survey conducted by the German newspaper Handelsblatt. Most companies want to wait and ...
Banning older diesel cars from inner cities will only worsen the air pollution problem and carbon emissions in the long run and should therefore be avoided as much as possible, Gerd Landsberg, head of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities ...
22 Feb 2018, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Administrative Court has postponed to next week a highly anticipated decision on whether polluted cities can ban diesel cars to improve air quality. S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Cars The Federal ...
The Green state premier of the southern German federal state of Baden-Wurttemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, will try to evade diesel driving bans that could be imposed to improve air quality in Stuttgart, the state鈥檚 capital, the newspaper Stuttgarter ...
02 Aug 2017, 00:00 German carmakers VW, Daimler and BMW 鈥� under pressure to act after the diesel emissions scandal 鈥� pledged to install emissions control software updates in about 5 million diesel passenger cars, offer buyer鈥檚 premiums for customers ...
The German transport NGO Transport Club Germany (VCD) has been one of the most vocal critics of German car companies in the ongoing dieselgate emissions fraud scandal, but now it has re-included diesel vehicles in its ranking of eco-friendly cars. New ...
31 May 2021, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Cars EU 91tv Ahead of a European court ruling, the vast majority of German cities are within nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air quality limits, show final 2020 data published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) ...
02 Aug 2017
02 Aug 2017, 00:00 German carmakers have pledged to update the software in some 5 million diesel cars to lower emissions at the so-called "diesel summit", where leaders of the industry met with federal ministers and heads of federal states. ...
German environmental organisations call on the European Commission to continue the official infringement procedure against Germany regarding high nitrogen dioxide (NOx) levels resulting from road traffic. In a letter ahead of a meeting with affected ...
鈥淎s far as possible,鈥� German carmakers themselves have to put right the 鈥渟erious mistakes鈥� made during the diesel crisis, said Chancellor Angela Merkel after a two-day cabinet retreat in Meseberg near Berlin. 鈥淭丑别 customer or taxpayer cannot be made ...
The political debate on imposing a ban on diesel engines in German cities continues unabated after the state government in Baden-W眉rttemberg was forced by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure to withdraw a clean air plan, Josef ...
07 Apr 2022, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv European oil companies have earned some three billion euros in additional revenues since the beginning of the Ukraine war thanks to the high prices for diesel and petrol, ...
German transport minister Andreas Scheuer will meet the country鈥檚 carmakers at the end of next week to thrash out a deal on who pays for hardware retrofits to lower nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel cars, industry sources told German newswire dpa. ...
The confusion about discounts make it highly unlikely that German diesel drivers will swap their vehicle against a newer model, write Andreas Macho, Martin Seiwert and Volker ter Haseborg in an article for business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. While company ...
The scandal about emissions from diesel cars has had no noticeable impact on diesel sales at Daimler, the head the German carmaker, Dieter Zetsche, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淓leven months after the VW case became public, the share of ...
Diesel cars in Germany need different kinds of badges to assist authorities in identifying which ones are affected by possible driving bans in inner cities, Maria Krautzberger, head of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), says in an interview with the ...
The General German Automobile Club (ADAC) says it has proof that the mechanical retrofitting of older diesel cars in order to cut air pollution 鈥渋s not only possible but also highly effective.鈥� The influential car club says that tests carried out by its ...
Ten German cities considerably exceed EU nitrogen oxide (NOx) limits, making diesel driving bans more likely in 2018, according to calculations by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), reports Der Tagesspiegel. 鈥淥ur results for 2017 show that neither ...
The German government鈥檚 recently decided concept to avoid diesel driving bans in German inner cities is based on outdated data, reports Martin Gropp for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The grand coalition decided to introduce special measures in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
Software updates for diesel cars, decided at the diesel summit in Berlin, are unlikely to reduce emissions enough and prevent driving bans, writes Christian Lindner, head of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in a guest commentary in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The diesel engine has been damaged by the emissions scandal and it will reach the end of its development capability in about a decade, but German automakers must nevertheless make diesel acceptable again, Henrik Mortsiefer writes in Der Tagesspiegel. New ...
17 Apr 2019, 13:19 Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv The highest administrative court of the state of Baden-W眉rttemberg has ruled that state governments must retain diesel driving bans in their clean air plans if pollution limits exceed the ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:27 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in German cities 鈥� mainly ...
Even though the government put plans to enable diesel bans in German cities on ice last month, experts believe diesel engines are doomed, reports Henning Peitsmeier in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Elmar Kades, director at business consultancy Alix ...
Baden-W眉rttemberg鈥檚 Green state premier Winfried Kretschmann has defended the diesel technology as 鈥渢he best combustion engine there is鈥�, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. 鈥淐lean diesel engines exist鈥� and 鈥渨e鈥檙e going to need them for a long time to ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new transport minister, Andreas Scheuer, has signalled that he does not plan a sharp departure from the previous government鈥檚 approach to reducing diesel engine pollution in cities, which had been sharply criticised by environmentalists as being ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars Politics Spiegel Online The rise in emissions from passenger cars in Germany shows that 鈥渢he diesel strategy has been pointless for the climate,鈥� Spiegel Online reports. ...
The NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) initiated several additional legal proceedings on emissions limits in German cities, bringing the total number of affected cities to 45, the organisation writes in a press release. 鈥�Diesel driving bans in more ...
The German government will likely arrive empty-handed at an EU Commission meeting on 30 January where several states are supposed to show how and by when they intend to achieve compliance with European Union air quality directives, writes Nikolaus Doll in ...
The federal German government is currently not planning a combustion engine ban similar to British plans. 鈥淎 ban of diesel or petrol cars is currently not on the agenda of the federal government. It鈥檚 about making possible a low-emission mobility,鈥� a ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / Rheinische Post The German government will continue with its plans to rollback tax breaks for agricultural businesses, said ...
Ahead of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first diesel car driving ban in Hamburg from 31 May, the rail transport group Allianz pro Schiene called on regional and federal governments to make local rail transport in metropolitan areas more attractive. Older diesel cars and ...
BMW head Harald Kr眉ger has rejected VW CEO Matthias M眉ller鈥檚 call to end the privileged tax treatment of diesel cars, reports Handelsblatt. 鈥淚 think abandoning the diesel subsidies is wrong. This is not justifiable for the customers that have bought a ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government plans to present a joint list of demands to German carmakers at the national diesel summit on 2 August, a spokesperson for the environment ministry (BMUB) told journalists in Berlin on Monday. The inviting transport and ...
Diesel cars will be banned on two roads in Hamburg, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second largest city, by the end of May, the local newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt reports. The city鈥檚 environment agency said a first overview of a written explanation by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
German transport minister Andreas Scheuer reiterated his opposition to labelling older diesel cars with a sticker (鈥渂lue badge鈥�) to better be able to enforce possible driving bans, reports news agency dpa. 鈥淚 continue to reject the blue badge and thus ...
The German government has rejected a proposal by VW CEO Matthias M眉ller to abolish the tax privilege for diesel cars, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. 鈥淭丑别re are currently no plans by the federal government to change the taxation of diesel cars ...
The German car industry has stepped up its rhetoric against looming diesel car bans, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. 鈥淲hoever wants to ban diesel is also against climate protection,鈥� said the head of the German carmakers鈥� association (VDA), ...
Car drivers, politicians and the car industry itself all fell for the diesel engine鈥檚 supposed fuel efficiency but were deceived, because making them clean with expensive hardware retrofits will push up fuel consumption, writes Martin Murphy in a ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 carmakers have retrofitted the software of about 2.5 million out of a total of 5.3 million diesel cars eligible for a retrofitting to lower their emissions, Handelsblatt reports. The country鈥檚 largest carmaker, Volkswagen, has carried out over ...
German auto supplier Bosch has announced a vastly improved diesel technology as it strives to draw a line under an emissions scandal that has tarnished the diesel car industry, reports the news agency Reuters. The company鈥檚 new technology could enable ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel has defended diesel cars as environmentally friendly, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. 鈥�Diesel cars are as good for climate protection today as they were yesterday and the day before yesterday,鈥� Merkel said ...
The conflict between citizens鈥� right to clean air and car owners' right to protection from depreciation on diesel vehicles could be solved by introducing a 鈥渂lue badge鈥� with a transition period for older cars, Eric Heymann, analyst at Deutsche Bank ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that a decision on hardware retrofitting is not in sight. 鈥淲e will continue to examine the hardware retrofitting proposal, but according to what I saw, there will certainly not be a quick solution for millions of ...
While Britain, France, Spain and Greece are making steps to end the era of diesel cars, 鈥淕erman auto executives and political leaders meeting in Berlin on Wednesday appeared determined to rescue the technology鈥�, write Melissa Eddy and Jack Ewing in New ...
British plans to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 show that the combustion engine 鈥渋s dying鈥� and the national German diesel summit next week 鈥渁lready seems like a sad alumni reunion鈥�, writes Greenpeace transport representative Tobias ...
Two years after the diesel emissions fraud scandal broke in September 2015, German carmakers fail to come up with available e-car models at the Frankfurt Car Show (IAA) and instead present 鈥� more diesel-SUVs than ever before,鈥� NGO Environmental Action ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars 91tv VW customers in Germany are once again placing more orders for diesel vehicles. 贰耻谤辞辫别鈥檚 largest automaker said the share of new orders for diesel vehicles rose from 39聽percent ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has reached an agreement to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from diesel cars in German cities. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer and environment minister Svenja Schulze called the deal 鈥渁 very large step鈥� to improve ...
The German government will organise a summit on 2 August with the aim of bundling the different community and state activities to reduce pollution from diesel vehicles at federal level, a spokesperson of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital ...
Diesel cars continue to fall out of favour with people interested in buying a new car in Germany. In a survey commissioned by the German Energy Agency (dena), 17 percent of potential car buyers said they planned to buy a diesel car, compared to 21 percent ...
A D眉sseldorf court has dismissed a suit by lobby group Environmental Action Germany (DUH) seeking a ban of certain Volkswagen diesel cars from the city鈥檚 roads, Anneli Palmen reports for Reuters. DUH argued that Volkswagen diesel cars with emissions test ...
Social Democratic (SPD) chancellor candidate Martin Schulz calls for a binding European e-mobility quota as a consequence of the diesel scandal, reports Peter Fahrenholz for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). 鈥淲ith a binding European e-mobility quota we will ...
The diesel emissions scandal, with looming inner-city driving bans and decreasing resale values of used diesel cars, are driving more and more companies to switch their fleets to electric vehicles, Andreas Schulte聽writes聽for the Handelsblatt. In the short ...
The German government does not consider the lower taxation of diesel fuel as a subsidy that favours use of the technology. In a response to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green Party, the government says the lower tax for diesel fuel does not amount to a ...
The regional government鈥檚 decision to ban older diesel cars from Stuttgart city centre on days with bad air from next year is 鈥渋ll-advised鈥�, 鈥渄isastrous鈥� economic policy, and its environmental benefits 鈥渜uestionable,鈥� according to Franz Fehrenbach, ...
The share of diesel cars in Germany's new vehicle registrations was down 25.4 percent in March 2018, compared to a year before, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). Total new car registrations stood at 347,433 vehicles, 31.4 ...
Since 2010, the German government has donated around 7 million euros to NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH), which recently gained international attention over its lawsuits against German municipal administrations which opened the door to diesel ...
Despite the looming driving bans following the landmark 27 February court ruling, German carmakers continue to resist hardware retrofits to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from older diesel cars, report Michael Bauchm眉ller and Thomas Fromm in the lead ...
27 Jan 2020, 13:46 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities dpa / Donaukurier Authorities in four German cities with active driving bans for diesel cars have registered over 15 ...
Munich prosecutors have named Rupert Stadler, CEO of Volkswagen AG鈥檚 Audi brand, a suspect in the diesel-rigging scandal after authorities聽on 11 June raided his home and that of a person said to be Bernd Martens, Audi鈥檚 head of purchasing, Bloomberg鈥檚 ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) says the country ought to consider abandoning its diesel fuel tax privilege, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Berliner Morgenpost. UBA head Maria Krautzberger told newspaper Rheinische Post the ...
01 Aug 2018, 17:31 With a national 鈥�diesel summit鈥� in early August 2017, the German government tried to curb the fallout of the country鈥檚 emissions fraud scandal and avoid being sued by the European Commission over excessive air pollution. One year on, ...
German carmakers must present ways to significantly reduce NOX emissions from diesel engines at an upcoming 鈥� diesel summit 鈥� with federal ministries, Handelsblatt report. Economy minister Brigitte Zypries told the business daily in an interview the ...
The federal government will demand at the diesel summit on Wednesday that German carmakers pay for software updates for Euro-5 and Euro-6 diesel cars, according to the draft for the final summit statement, reports Daniel Delhaes in Handelsblatt. It will ...
The vastly improved diesel technology by leading car supplier Bosch deserves a chance because NO x emissions stay well below the strict 2020 EU emission rules and diesel engines emit less CO 2 than petrol engines, writes Dietmar Lamparter in a commentary ...
German auto supplier Bosch has every right to be proud of its improved diesel technology, which it says leads to far less nitrogen oxide emissions, but economic success depends on the reputation of diesel as a whole, writes Susanne Preu脽 in an opinion ...
16 Dec 2019, 12:41 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen 91tv Battery electric cars are more climate-friendly over their full lifecycle than ...
By banning private diesel cars from the inner city, Oslo has done what German municipalities do not dare to do, Claus Hecking writes on Spiegel Online. The controversial diesel ban is the first of its kind in the often smog-ridden Norwegian capital, ...
Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) concentration in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 air is a 鈥渟ignificant burden鈥� on human health, and statistically led to about 6,000 premature deaths from cardiovascular diseases in 2014, down from about 8,000 in 2010, writes the Federal Environment ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:15 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Tagesspiegel Background The European Commission has approved German government plans to impose diesel bans only in cities that significantly exceeded pollution limits, Markus Grabitz, Stefan ...
Carmaker Daimler plans to develop a new generation of diesel engines regardless of pending driving bans in many German cities, according to a report by news agency dpa carried by manager magazine. 鈥淔rom today鈥檚 point of view, there is no reason to say ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport ministry and carmaker association VDA hope to prevent diesel driving bans in the country鈥檚 cities by retrofitting older diesel cars to make them cleaner, report Gerald Traufetter and Christoph Stockburger in Spiegel Online. An ...
Business prospects for the German car industry remain strong despite the ongoing debate about the future of the diesel engine, the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) said in its release on the ifo business climate index, the closely watched indicator ...
The head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest carmaker VW, Matthias M眉ller, has said his company is of 鈥渟ystemic鈥� relevance for the country and therefore must not be financially overburdened with costs accruing from a retrofitting of manipulated diesel cars, Daniel ...
Following the landmark 27 February court ruling on diesel driving bans, the incoming German government will consider the option of introducing a 鈥檅lue badge鈥� as a federal measure to identify clean vehicles. 鈥淭丑别 issue will be taken on by the new ...
The diesel summit is 鈥渁 beacon of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 lack of digitality鈥� and shows that the country tends to place too much value on improving instead of renewing, writes Sascha Lobo in an article for his column on Spiegel Online. 鈥淚t is not about the car of the ...
Diesel remains an option for about one out of three drivers in Germany, according to a poll by statistics service statista. Petrol cars were preferred by the largest share of respondents, topping the list with 71 percent, followed by hybrids with 41 ...
Diesel cars鈥� share of new vehicle registrations in Germany fell below 45 percent in September to reach the lowest level in five years, reports Sebastian Viehmann for Focus Online. Car expert Ferdinand Dudenh枚ffer, director of the Center for Automotive ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.5 billion euros in 2024, up around 100 million euros from the previous year, said the country's Federal Environment ...
The looming driving bans on polluting diesel cars in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 inner cities are 鈥渁 nightmare for hundreds of thousands of diesel owners as well as for politicians,鈥� but a ruling by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 administrative court due today (22 February) could force city ...
Retrofitting older diesel cars to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions could be financed 鈥渇ully or for the largest part possible鈥� through a support mechanism, a group of government advisors writes in a draft report, Markus Balser and Michael Bauchm眉ller ...
German luxury and utility vehicle producer Daimler is weighing its options as it searches for the best possible engine for its heavy-duty vehicles in the future, testing potential solutions like electric engines, hydrogen, synthetic and natural gas, ...
27 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany's Federal Administrative Court has ruled that cities can ban dirty diesel cars to improve local air quality. The 91tv presents reactions to the landmark ruling from NGOs, politicians and industry associations. ...
Stuttgart is the first German city to introduce a ban on older diesel cars to improve air quality. The home of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche will ban diesel cars which do not meet the latest emissions standards from entering the city on days when pollution is ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Retrofitting manipulated diesel cars with hardware that reduces their output of harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) can greatly increase a vehicle鈥檚 fuel consumption and, consequently, ...
The buyer鈥檚 bonus German carmakers will offer for customers switching away from an old diesel will have little effect, writes Lukas Bay in an article in Handelsblatt. The 2,000-euro bonus incentive wasn鈥檛 big enough, said Stefan Bratzel, of the Center of ...
German carmakers must prove the effectiveness of the measures for better air quality promised at the diesel summit, writes Silke Kersting in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. 鈥淭丑别 government must also act鈥� and be strict regarding on-road emissions tests. ...
The German environment ministry鈥檚 move to stop plans to make it easier to ban diesel cars from cities is a good thing, Carsten Knop writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Knop argues that the 鈥渂lue badge鈥� plan would force nearly all existing diesel ...
The buyer鈥檚 premium for the purchase of a new car in exchange for an old diesel has contributed to a 12.3 percent year-on-year increase of delivered Volkswagen (VW) vehicles in January 2018, the company announced in a press release. January saw a global ...
The German capital Berlin could be one of the next cities to introduce driving bans for older diesel cars, public broadcaster rbb reports. According to documents by the Berlin Senate, the bans the would affect 200,000 vehicles 聽are 鈥渋nevitable鈥� and could ...
The state government of Baden-W眉rttemberg is to introduce driving bans for the most polluting diesel vehicles in the state capital Stuttgart from 1 January 2019. Baden-W眉rttemberg is the home state of German carmakers Daimler and Porsche. Diesel vehicles ...
Green Party head Cem 脰zdemir has said his party will call for the introduction of a blue badge to be awarded only to lower-emission vehicles, in the upcoming exploratory coalition talks, Konstantin Schwarz writes for Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Such a badge ...
The German government has postponed a decision on the hardware retrofitting of manipulated diesel cars, saying it plans to come to a conclusion by the end of the last week of September, the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung reports. 鈥淲e want to make a decision soon,鈥� ...
Leaked information ahead of the last day of exploratory talks between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 prospective coalition parties suggest that Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) will spare the country鈥檚 mighty carmakers ...
The German car industry says that diesel technology is 鈥渁t least in the mid-term鈥� indispensable to reach climate targets, writes the German Bundestag in a press release. In a hearing before the parliament鈥檚 committee of inquiry for the diesel emissions ...
German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt has suggested communes should ban the use of diesel cars when nitrogen oxide levels are high, report Michail Hengstenberg and Gerald Traufetter in Spiegel Online. In a reply to a question by the Green party, ...
The federal environment ministry鈥檚 statement that software updates are insufficient to improve air quality in German cities makes the August 鈥� diesel summit 鈥� a failure, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an opinion piece in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎ction plans ...
A software update for manipulated diesel cars in Germany will reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions by 25 to 30 percent on average, making a mechanical retrofitting of affected cars unnecessary, says engine researcher Thomas Koch in an interview with Zeit ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:48 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
While it is unfortunate that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Administrative Court has postponed a ruling on diesel driving bans aimed at cutting air pollution in cities, the court case has already been a 鈥渟lap in the government鈥檚 face,鈥� according to German transport ...
The German government was much too soft on carmakers at the diesel summit in Berlin, writes Petra Pinzler in an opinion piece for Zeit Online. 鈥淚n Germany, laws are valid for some, summits are held for others,鈥� writes Pinzler. Even at the summit, ...
The diesel scandal is only the tip of the iceberg of the German car industry鈥檚 troubles and neither the manufacturers鈥� CEOs nor Chancellor Angela Merkel have grasped the gravity of the crisis, writes Heribert Prantl in an opinion piece in S眉ddeutsche ...
Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has announced it will expand its legal action over air pollution from diesel cars to several more German cities. In a press release, the environmental organisation said it would sue authorities in the cities of Kiel, ...
A new emissions test by German car club ADAC shows that most diesel engines meet legal standards level only on the test bench 鈥� falling short on the road, S眉ddeutsche Zeitung reports. The biggest problem for most diesel engines was high nitrogen oxide. Of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Svenja Schulze says the carmakers implicated in the ongoing diesel emissions fraud scandal are capable of financing a hardware retrofitting of manipulated cars, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Spiegel Online ...
Inner-city driving bans for diesel cars threaten the economy, consumer interests and even the environment, writes the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) in a long, front-page article. Diesel cars emit up to 20 percent less CO鈧� than petrol cars ...
20 May 2019, 13:30 Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv A group of 30 ...
21 Sep 2020, 14:00 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang Cars Cost & Prices Welt am Sonntag Diesel must become more expensive to allow a faster transformation of the car industry to comply with more ambitious climate targets proposed by ...
The search of Daimler offices last week by prosecutors reveals that the diesel engine has become the biggest and most dangerous problem for German carmakers, writes Grischa Brower-Rabinowitsch in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. The companies ...
08 Jan 2024, 13:54 Workers from agricultural companies across Germany have launched a week of authorised protests in the country by blocking roads and motorways with their tractors. They are demonstrating against cuts to tax breaks for diesel fuel widely ...
It remains uncertain whether Mercedes鈥� and Porsche鈥檚 hometown Stuttgart will introduce diesel driving bans next year as currently planned, according to the regional government. Green state premier Winfried Kretschmann told local newspapers the bans were 鈥� ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:30 Jessica Bateman Cars Society 91tv Only 52 percent of Germans say they would consider purchasing a hybrid or electric car 鈥� a figure 15 percentage points behind the European average. According to the European Investment Bank ...
German car customers are losing interest in diesel engines as the evolving emissions scandal and looming driving bans in many German cities take their toll on the once dominant technology, Focus Online reports. Diesel registrations fell by 9.1 percent in ...
The head of German carmaker Volkswagen told daily Rheinische Post that he can imagine a deal with the government in which the carmakers agree to a phase-out date for diesel engines in return for more support with e-mobility. 鈥淚f you act with appropriate ...
NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says it鈥檚 sceptical of government efforts to prevent driving bans on diesel cars in inner cities, as well as a lawsuit by the European Union over excessive air pollution. With a crucial verdict by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal ...
Martin Schulz, the Social Democrats鈥� (SPD) frontrunner for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2017 federal elections, has suggested that the country鈥檚 carmakers should not fear a major attack on their diesel technology if he is elected Chancellor in September, Markus Mayr reports ...
The diesel emissions scandal has not slowed sales of new diesel cars, reports Henrik Mortsiefer in Tagesspiegel. Sales of diesel cars actually reached a new record of 812,000 in the first half of 2016. Total German car sales rose seven percent to 1.73 ...
The world鈥檚 largest supplier of diesel technology Bosch will build a new chip factory for around one billion euros to produce future mobility technology in Germany, writes Susanne Preu脽 in a commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淭丑别 new ...
The German government will support hardware retrofitting for large municipal diesel vehicles in certain polluted cities, such as garbage or street cleaning trucks, writes the transport ministry (BMVI) in a press release. This could affect at least 20,000 ...
Hamburg is the first German city to ban older diesel cars from main thoroughfares all year round to improve local air quality, reports Nils-Viktor Sorge for Spiegel Online. Even though only two roads are affected, the decision 鈥渉as a highly symbolic ...
It is still unclear if so-called 鈥渆nvironmental bonuses鈥� offered by German car manufacturers to customers switching away from an old diesel car would actually help protect the environment, writes Martin Gropp in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The European Commission is beginning to lose patience with carmakers and member states over the diesel emissions fraud, Markus Balser and Josef Kelberger write for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. EU Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska is calling all cars with ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Policy 91tv / Table.Media A draft bill that would seal a deal to phase out biofuels derived from food or feed crops should be voted on by ministers 鈥渁s soon as possible鈥�, German environment ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Cars Spiegel Online European Union member states, backed by the German government, want to ensure that diesel cars are allowed to emit 43 percent more nitrogen oxides (NOx) when tested on the road as opposed to in the ...
Manipulated diesel cars in Germany will need a mechanical engine retrofitting to ensure the European Union does not sue the country over exceeding emissions levels in transport for several years, environment minister Svenja Schulze says in an interview ...
The EU Commissioner for transport, Violeta Bulc, says a dynamic toll system for inner cities could allow emission levels to be regulated and make driving bans for polluting diesel cars unnecessary. In an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau, Bulc says ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:07 S枚ren Amelang Cars International S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The EU Commission has 鈥渂rusquely鈥� rebuffed a German call for a reappraisal of existing nitrogen oxide limits in what amounts to a 鈥渟lap in the face鈥� for transport minister Andreas ...
Carmaker VW will accept hardware retrofits for manipulated diesel cars that have lower exhaust levels on the test stand than on the road, Gerald Traufetter writes on Spiegel Online. According to the article, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest carmaker is the first in the ...
Fixing the ongoing diesel crisis ranks among the top priorities of the new German government with the goal to avoid large-scale driving bans, Chancellor Angela Merkel told parliament in her first speech of the new legislative period. 鈥淭丑别 federal ...
The possible diesel driving ban in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 inner cities poses a major threat to many small and medium-sized businesses that use cars with the contested engine technology in their everyday work, Georg Berger writes on Welt Online. 鈥淚f there was a driving ...
Less than half of German citizens would approve of driving bans for extremely polluting diesel cars, Focus Online reports. In a representative survey conducted by pollster YouGov ahead of a crucial ruling by a Germany administrative court that could ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her proposal to adapt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 emissions law to prevent diesel driving bans in cities where nitrogen oxide limits are only slightly exceeded. In an interview with public broadcaster hr-iNFO, Merkel said this ...
The conservative (CDU/CSU) parliamentary group said the EU Commission should instead support German efforts to improve air quality. 鈥淭丑别 lawsuit is the exact opposite of that,鈥� transport spokesperson Daniela Ludwig said. 鈥淭his is beyond my comprehension. ...
German engineering heavyweight Bosch is going to bridle at the impending driving ban for cars with diesel engines in its hometown Stuttgart, Susanne Preuss and Carsten Knop write in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner argues the path ...
Banning diesel cars from entering inner cities at times of high air pollution is the right way to protect public health, a majority of Germans says according to a representative survey commissioned by the Stern magazine. While 59 percent of respondents ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Energy costs for private households in Germany is around twelve percent above pre-war levels, as wholesale prices for gas and electricity fall rapidly, comparison portal Verivox said ...
Diesel technology has long been hailed as a climate-friendly alternative to petrol but has聽 suddenly come under intense fire, amounting to 鈥� a broadside against 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading industry,鈥� Alfred Gaffal, president of Bavarian industry association vbw, ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, campaigning for her party ahead of the regional elections in the federal state of Hesse, said her government aims to amend existing legislation to prevent diesel driving bans in cities where nitrogen oxide limits are only ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:23 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Cars SWR 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first extensive all-year driving ban for older diesel vehicles has taken effect in Stuttgart, the hometown of carmakers Daimler and Porsche. Public broadcaster SWR reports that ...
Debates about diesel engines constantly confuse fact with fiction, family enterprise lobbyist Lutz Goebel writes in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. Regardless of the cartel allegations against 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important carmakers, seeing the shift to e ...
The German government is working on a concept to reduce emissions from diesel cars in German cities which will include swap and retrofit options, said transport minister Andreas Scheuer during a live video chat on Instagram. 鈥淲e are currently talking ...
The European Commission has set a deadline for Germany and other countries to show how they intend to comply with the EU鈥檚 air quality standards or face court action, reports Florian Eder for Politico. In a letter seen by Politico, Commissioner for the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport ministry (BMVI) and the country鈥檚 carmakers have agreed to form a joint institute to ensure more 鈥渢ransparent鈥� and 鈥渞ealistic鈥� exhaust emissions tests, the BMVI has said in a press release. The institute, dubbed DIVEM (German Institute ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv / Handelsblatt The share of newly registered battery electric cars has met the level of registrations of diesel cars in Germany聽for the first time in 2022, thanks to strong sales in anticipation of ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks says the software updates for diesel cars exceeding emission limits agreed on at the national 鈥�diesel summit鈥� in early August can only be 鈥渁 first step鈥� and need to be followed by technical retrofitting of the ...
18 May 2020, 14:08 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Gas Cars Focus Online / 脰ko-Institut Despite ...
The government of southern 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 state of Baden-W眉rttemberg, home to carmaker Daimler, wants to ban old diesel cars in cities, report Josef Kelnberger und Max H盲gler in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Only a 鈥� blue badge 鈥� could reduce nitrogen oxide levels ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in the TV debate with her challenger Martin Schulz, scolded 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 carmakers for putting the country鈥檚 key industry in jeopardy with their manipulation of exhaust emission values, Carsten Knop writes in a commentary for ...
The future of the internal combustion engine and car manufacturing in Germany will be central topics at the International Motor Show (IAA) 2017 in September, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her annual summer press conference in Berlin. 鈥淗ow do ...
In the fight against pollution from diesel cars and with EU fines looming, five German model cities want to make their public transport systems better and cheaper. At a press conference with transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) and environment ...
The German government is considering creating a joint fund with carmakers to pay for advanced exhaust systems that make diesel cars cleaner, reports German weekly Der Spiegel. The fund would back the hardware retrofitting of a large part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 15 ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:48 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv The level of air pollution, mostly due to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions from traffic, has ...
12 Sep 2023, 13:59 Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv ...
In an interview with Die Welt, German environment minister Svenja Schulze proposed a step-by-step plan for hardware refits for older diesel cars. Refits should be prioritised in areas of with particularly poor air quality, Schulze said, adding that total ...
The federal state of Baden-W眉rttemberg is holding talks with the federal government in preparation for driving bans for older diesel cars in the city of Stuttgart, according to a dpa article carried by Handelsblatt. Baden-W眉rttemberg State Premier ...
Diesel fuel was invented by a German engineer and is pushed relentlessly by the country鈥檚 carmakers to this day, which is why banning it 鈥渉as the feel of a ban on beer or bratwurst,鈥� writes Griff Witte in a feature article for the Washington Post. 鈥淵et ...
Bavarian state interior minister Joachim Hermann calls for the electrification of old train tracks in light of pollution from diesel emissions, reports news agency dpa in an article carried by S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚 want us to talk about a special ...
The EU Commission is not planning to introduce e-car sales quotas, said a Commission spokesperson in reaction to reports by German daily Handelsblatt, writes news agency Reuters. Read the article in English here. Find background material on the carmakers ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks said that today鈥檚 court ruling on the legality of driving restrictions to cut down air pollution 鈥渃onfirms my view that carmakers have to avoid driving bans themselves.鈥� Carmakers needed to shift towards other ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities The Guardian In a long article, British newspaper The Guardian explores the history of the dieselgate scandal, which involved most German carmakers. Author Beth Gardiner argues that the companies worked ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:43 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Cities Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government has vowed to provide an additional one billion euros to the country鈥檚 clean air programme in a bid to prevent diesel ...
German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt called on foreign carmakers to follow BMW鈥檚, VW鈥檚 and Daimler鈥檚 example of buyer鈥檚 bonuses and introduce 鈥渟imilar measures鈥�, reports Reuters in an article carried by Handelsblatt. Read the article in German ...
More than half of Germans are in favour of temporary diesel driving bans when air quality is bad, according to Greenpeace. In a survey by pollster Emnid commissioned by the NGO, 61 percent of interviewees answered 鈥測es鈥� to the question: 鈥淒o you believe ...
Speaking to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung鈥檚 Kerstin Schwenn, German transport minister Andreas Scheuer said Germany would see a transport turnaround as his ministry seeks to implement its 鈥渆mergency programme for clean air,鈥� which includes 1 billion ...
The slow and cumbersome handling of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 diesel emissions crisis is becoming 鈥渁 threat to our democracy,鈥� Green Party co-head Annalena Baerbock told the newspaper WirtschaftsWoche. She said the federal transport ministry has not had the 鈥渃ourage鈥� to ...
The diesel emissions scandal forces German carmaker Audi to cut costs and increase efficiency 鈥渨herever possible鈥�, writes Henning Peitsmeier for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Many investments 鈥渨hich would have easily passed any budget meeting of ...
20 Dec 2018, 13:59 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Cars Alternative fuel passenger cars are benefitting from declining sales ...
12 Dec 2018, 14:11 Bavarian state premier Markus S枚der called for a national exit from coal-fired power generation but rejected the current financial demands from coal-mining states to cushion the phase-out. In a speech on his new government鈥檚 priorities, ...
Experts commissioned by the German federal government at the diesel summit in 2017 agree that diesel vehicle hardware retrofitting is an effective measure to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. However, they are ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:35 Two years after Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis, Germany continues to struggle with its full economic recovery 鈥� even if energy prices are losing in relevance for the country鈥檚 growth prospects. Presenting the ...
04 Sep 2017, 00:00 For the second time within one month, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has held a 鈥�diesel summit鈥� to discuss the consequences of the emissions fraud scandal of the country鈥檚 major carmakers. After a first summit in early August with industry ...
The European Commission will decide whether to sue Germany for failing to comply with EU air quality standards some time in the coming weeks, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Handelsblatt. The Commission initially said it would decide by ...
Porsche may give up diesel engines by the end of the decade, Reuters reports. Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said 鈥渨e have not made a decision on it,鈥� adding the company was 鈥渙f course鈥� looking into this issue following the emissions cheating scandal that ...
The current passionate discussions about diesel cars, air quality and driving bans should be used to kick-start a wide mobility transition dialogue between politicians, the car industry, citizens and environmentalists, writes Martin Gropp in an opinion ...
The decline of diesel cars鈥� share in new registrations in Germany continues, figures for January released by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) show. While the total number of newly registered passenger cars rose by 11.6 percent compared to the ...
German car manufacturers are willing to pay for certain upgrades and retrofitting to reduce their diesel cars鈥� nitrogen oxide emissions and help avoid driving bans, Peter Fahrenholz writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. BMW and Audi signalled to the Bavarian ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 proposal to change the law to prevent diesel driving bans in several German cities is a 鈥渃heap argument and an all-too transparent attempt to please voters ahead of the state elections in Hesse鈥� this Sunday, writes Lutz Reiche ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:37 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Cities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The ruling by the European Court of Justice allowing cities to ban a new generation of 鈥渃leaner鈥� diesel cars is 鈥渢he next round in the witch hunt on drivers ...
The pivotal mistake by the auto industry was not diesel technology itself, but holding on to it for too long, writes Grischa Brower-Rabinowitsch in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. German carmakers had not focused on new propulsion technologies early ...
21 Jan 2019, 12:26 An internal working paper by the task force responsible for proposals to cut emissions from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport sector has stirred public controversy. Federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer, whose own ministry appointed the ...
Hardware retrofitting of older diesel cars would be 鈥渁n economic waste of tax money or carmakers鈥� money鈥�, writes Daniel Delhaes in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. The retrofits would take years, when driving bans are already being introduced, and the ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cars Destatis An increase in the average engine performance of both diesel and petrol cars is one of the main reasons for the continuously increasing CO鈧� emissions caused by passenger cars in Germany, ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:08 Edgar Meza Transport Freight Technology 91tv The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is working with industry partners and research institutions to develop a megawatt charging system that would enable battery-powered ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to 鈥渆xamine all other options鈥� before making a final decision on hardware retrofitting for diesel cars, she said in an interview with tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淚f I put another 1,000 to 2,000 euros per car into old ...
Even technical retrofitting of 鈥渁 significant share鈥� of German diesel cars would hardly reduce the nitrogen oxide concentration in cities, say internal documents of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), reports Morton Freidel in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Transport Cars 91tv Germany needs a profound shift to a renewable transport system to improve local air quality instead of ineffective diesel driving bans, according to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 National Academy of Sciences ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Together with French manufacturer Alstom, German railway company Deutsche Bahn is going to start trial runs with the country鈥檚 first battery-powered passenger train. Test operation of the so ...
The environmental movement must fight the internal combustion engine just as hard as it does diesel, Martin Unfried, expert at the European Institute of Public Administration, writes in a commentary in the tageszeitung (taz). Unfortunately, the diesel ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 Dieselgate, looming driving bans in German cities, an election debate on phasing out combustion engines, and the rapid ascent of e-car rival Tesla 鈥� this year鈥檚 Frankfurt car show (IAA) comes at an awkward time for German carmakers. The ...
Bosch, the world鈥檚 largest auto parts supplier, has rejected a suggestion by Volkswagen CEO Matthias M眉ller that diesel tax incentives could be cut to subsidise green mobility. Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner told the business daily Handelsblatt that this would ...
Operating profits of Volkswagen Group鈥檚 core brand slipped in 2016 amid higher marketing costs related to the diesel emissions scandal and plunging demand in key markets, reports Reuters. But VW Board of Management member Frank Witter said in a press ...
The German Federal Motor Transport Agency (KBA) has sent 1.5 million letters to owners of old diesel cars in heavily polluted regions, advising them to exchange the vehicles for newer diesel models, reports Christian Frahm on Spiegel Online in an article ...
The decline in diesel car sales does not put EU CO 2 emission targets out of reach for carmakers, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). 鈥淚n fact, other technologies 鈥� efficiency improvements in gasoline engines as well as ...
21 Aug 2024, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Germany's national price on CO2 emissions of fuels used in the transport and heating sectors lacks acceptance among the population, shows a survey by the Hans B枚ckler ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:17 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Politics Rheinische Post / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung At least two German federal states are considering legal action against carmakers for compensation because the dieselgate scandal has ...
At 45.3 percent in August 2016, the share of diesel cars in all newly registered passenger cars in Germany was at its lowest since March 2012, due to the emissions scandal, according to a study by the CAR Center Automotive Research of the University of ...
German carmakers say it is nearly impossible to retrofit hardware to clean up diesel engines, but this is simply untrue, according to the German car drivers鈥� association ADAC, Max H盲gler reports in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. H盲gler writes that many German ...
The court case in car industry hub Stuttgart on diesel engines鈥� nitrogen oxide emissions pits the Baden-Wuerttemberg state鈥檚 Greens-led transport ministry against the NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH). This is a case of 鈥淕reen versus Green鈥�, writes ...
Three years after the uncovery the diesel scandal, transport minister Andreas Scheuer is pushing carmakers to more rapidly advance the transition to electric mobility, according to a dpa article carried by Berliner Morgenpost. At the 鈥� diesel summit 鈥� ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:24 Rachel Waldholz Transport Cars Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 main association of skilled tradesmen says cities must find ways to reduce traffic and vehicle emissions without banning cars and trucks from city centres, arguing that such bans would ...
Uber will expand its Berlin fleet with electric vehicles this fall, according to an article in Handelsblatt. Since March, the controversial ride-sharing company has been chauffeuring its Munich customers with roughly 30 battery-powered cars. In light of ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Cars Xinhua The ongoing diesel crisis cost hundreds of jobs in drive technology last year at the German auto parts supplier Bosch, a board member told the industry newspaper Automobilwoche, according to a聽 Xinhua report. A ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs manager magazin The dieselgate scandal in which carmakers from Germany and other countries manipulated the engines of their vehicles to cheat on emissions tests has severely damaged the ...
Courts in Germany and other European Union countries are posing a growing challenge to governments and business interests regarding climate change in recent months, reports Rick Noack in The Washington Post. Examples include an appeals court in the ...
The European Commission has granted Germany and several other countries a 鈥渧ery last deadline鈥� to propose concrete measures on how they intend to comply with air quality standards, report Till Hoppe and Silke Kersting in the Handelsblatt. After what ...
NGO Environmental Action Germany is launching a campaign to supplement what it says is inadequate air pollution testing by the government. A new web portal will allow citizens to report locations with high traffic pollution. DUH will then use a network of ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:24 Sven Egenter Cars Business & Jobs dpa / tagesschau.de German car part supplier Bosch will cut around 2,600 jobs in the coming years because the demand for diesel and petrol cars is waning, according to a report by newsagency dpa run ...
The diesel engine could remain the most economic option for many drivers if the car industry manages to get clean diesel cars to the market at affordable prices, Eric Heymann writes in a note for Deutsche Bank Research. The industry must regain trust and ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:35 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Investigate Europe / Tagesspiegel Background While the EU aims to tackle the climate crisis with its Green Deal, member states, including Germany, continue to subsidise fossil fuels to the tune ...
Green Party and parliamentary group leaders Cem 脰zdemir and Anton Hofreiter call on Chancellor Angela Merkel to act on pollution in German cities, reports news agency dpa. The pair ask Merkel in a letter to support the introduction of 鈥渂lue badges鈥� that ...
The Association of German Cities warns of driving bans in inner cities if nothing is done about the air pollution caused by diesel vehicles, writes Kerstin Schwenn in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). 鈥淭丑别 targets of the UN climate conference in ...
Environmental NGO DUH, which sues many German cities over excessive air pollution levels, calls the measures agreed in Stuttgart a 鈥淢ickey Mouse driving ban鈥� because it only affects certain diesel cars on certain days. 鈥淲e need driving bans for all ...
27 Jul 2017, 00:00 Germany's most important carmakers have met in "secret workshops" since the 1990s in order to reach agreements on technological standards and prices, according to a report by news magazine Der Spiegel. The companies ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Electricity 91tv Primary energy consumption in Germany has continued to decrease in the first half of 2024 with the country consuming 3.4 percent less than the same period the previous ...
The federal government and the car industry are the main culprits in bad air quality in cities, but both are keeping silent in the Federal Administrative Court case on driving bans, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in a commentary in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. ...
The German proposal to consider free public transport in cities is an 鈥渙verdue revolution鈥� needed to shift mobility away from individual transport and thereby reducing air and noise pollution in inner cities, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an opinion piece ...
Laboratory emissions tests carried out by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) for the European Commission suggested that Audi manipulated the diesel engine in the current A3 model to meet emissions limits, report Joachim Becker, Alexander M眉hlauer and Klaus ...
The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) plans to initiate its own programme to measure emissions from diesel vehicles in real-life conditions, setting up parallel structures to those of the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung ...
In the aftermath of Dieselgate, Germany should not make the same mistake with regard to the energy transition by phasing out a technology without having enough alternatives, writes Nikolaus Doll in an opinion piece for Welt Online. This would be ...
A new study published by the World Energy Council Germany (WEC) on the climate impact of the country鈥檚 transport sector says that policymakers fail to base their decisions on a 鈥渃oherent big picture.鈥� 鈥淭丑别 current regulatory framework is tied to the ...
Diesel cars will continue to be necessary to reach climate protection targets, said Matthias Wissmann, president of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) in an interview with Handelsblatt. 鈥淭丑别y use 25 percent less fuel than petrol ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic challenger Martin Schulz failed to address climate and energy policies in Sunday鈥檚 TV debate ahead of the 24 September federal election. The debate focused mostly on questions related to refugee ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first diesel driving ban on two thoroughfares in Hamburg is no more than 鈥� gesture politics,鈥� because numerous exceptions are granted to residents, suppliers, and many others, writes Martin Gropp in a commentary for the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The once illusory concept of a carbon-neutral combustion engine could soon become a reality, German car industry supplier Bosch says in a press release. With synthetic fuels- so-called 鈥渆Fuels鈥�- CO 2 could become a valuable resource for making petrol, ...
In light of the current debate surrounding diesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is an interesting alternative to conventional car fuels, writes Michael Specht in an article for Spiegel Online. Cars powered by LPG emit less nitrogen oxides than either ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the suggestion that German carmaker VW鈥檚 emissions cheating was a 鈥渇ailure of government鈥�. The failure was with VW, not the German state, she said in a hearing before an inquiry committee of the federal parliament. ...
The Paris Car show offers the opportunity to observe the creeping death of the diesel engine, write Thomas Fromm and Leo Klimm in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Carmakers are suddenly in a hurry to roll out e-cars, as the share of diesel sales decreases in Germany ...
The French government鈥檚 decision to increase the price of diesel fuel has sparked heavy protests across the entire country, but more such 鈥渦nreasonable demands鈥� are necessary in France and elsewhere if Europe wants to succeed in drastically reducing its ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Transport Cost & Prices 91tv Germany has to reform its transport sector taxes to help reach climate targets, but also to ensure sufficient revenue in a climate-friendly mobility future, says a report ...
Alternative drives and fuels play only a minor role in company car fleets, according to a survey by German Energy Agency (dena). 鈥淥nly 10 percent include such low-emission vehicles [and] only 3 percent have electric vehicles,鈥� writes dena in a press ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:55 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung More than 300 ...
The environment ministry has put plans to facilitate diesel car bans in cities on hold, reports newspaper Berliner Morgenpost. State secretary Jochen Flasbarth told the paper that plans for the introduction of a 鈥渂lue badge鈥� were put on ice until a ...
The German government鈥檚 criticism of job cuts in Siemens鈥� fossil power generation business, and its rejection of VW鈥檚 call to cut diesel subsidies, reveal that it still believes that an outdated status quo could be preserved in the face of the 鈥渘ext ...
As German carmakers are increasingly under pressure to shift from their flagship diesel engines to electro mobility, China has pulled well ahead of Europe and the United States, Dave Keating writes for Deutsche Welle. China rapidly introduced charging ...
The software updates offered by VW for diesel cars affected by emissions manipulation are completely inadequate to reduce the vehicles鈥� pollution levels to below legal limits, according to Environmental Action Germany (DUH). 鈥淲e don鈥檛 need 鈥楳ickey-Mouse ...
Two-thirds of respondents in a survey in Germany say they will opt for a combustion engine in their next car, trumping alternative engines like hybrid or fully electric by far, consultancy Deloitte says in a press release. While 66 percent of respondents ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, is against driving bans for diesel cars, website bild.de reports. Schulze said driving bans, aimed at curbing air pollution in inner cities, would not 鈥渕ake old diesel cars any cleaner鈥�. Instead, she ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Cost & Prices 91tv Electric vehicles can save up to 300 euros a month compared to cars with diesel and petrol engines, according to a cost analysis report by Greenpeace. Despite temporary tax ...
German carmakers are the main culprits behind the problems with emissions, writes Nikolaus Doll in an opinion piece for Die Welt. 鈥淣ot all, but important companies have lied, deceived and in the end will not manage to comply with the future limit,鈥� Doll ...
The concentration of harmful nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) emissions are above the legal limit in 116 cities and municipalities in Germany, NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says in a press release. The NGO鈥檚 analysis included 41 cities that so far had not ...
Diesel car registrations in Germany are in decline: year-on-year registration figures in August fell by 13.8 percent, bringing the share of vehicles with diesel engines on German roads to 37.7 percent, the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) has said ...
Germany currently faces a 鈥淔ukushima moment of the German automobile industry鈥�, Green Party head Cem 脰zdemir told Ann-Kathrin B眉眉sker for Deutschlandfunk. Germany now had to invest billions of euros in correcting mistakes, instead of investing in the ...
The German government has the 鈥渁lmost unique opportunity鈥� to make German car manufacturers 鈥渇inally take decisions鈥� to find a solution for the diesel emissions scandal, writes Peter Fahrenholz in an opinion piece in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The auto industry ...
Rail industry associations and key companies have presented their joint vision of a climate friendly, cost-effective regional rail transport of the future, so that it can 鈥渂id farewell to the diesel drive鈥�, writes the transport alliance Allianz pro ...
The German finance ministry sees the car emissions scandal as a risk to the country鈥檚 economy, reports Reuters in an article carried by The Guardian. 鈥淕iven the importance of the automotive industry [the diesel crisis] must be classified in the medium ...
21 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv / Zeit Online Carmaker Volkswagen has lost a legal battle against NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) about pre-installed mechanisms in its car engines that turn off or reduce exhaust gas ...
German prosecutors have expanded their investigations over diesel emissions fraud to sports car manufacturer Porsche, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The luxury brand subsidiary of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest carmaker VW has so far not been in the focus of ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv German lobby group Rail Alliance has called for a quick ramp-up of cross-border European express and night train services as a way to replace flights and thus combat the transport sector鈥檚 ...
Registrations of new diesel cars fell by 17 percent in Germany in November compared to the same month in 2016, the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) says in a press release. The share of new cars sold with diesel engines now stands at 34 percent, ...
Small- and medium-sized suppliers of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 mighty carmakers should receive more financial support to accomplish the shift to e-mobility and lower vehicle emissions as proposed by the EU, the economy ministers of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states were quoted by ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:12 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices ...
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Unless Germany quickly phases out coal-fired power generation, diesel cars will continue to be better for the climate than e-cars, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess told the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung in an interview. For this reason, Germany will need diesel cars ...
19 Dec 2018, 14:19 Diesel driving bans in numerous German cities are a major blow to many car drivers, the country鈥檚 carmakers, and its leading politicians. Now, the NGO that set the ball rolling on the bans is eyeing legal steps to end the world-famous ...
The ongoing conflict between anti-coal protesters and energy company RWE at the Hambach Forest is but one of several recent examples that illustrate the indecisiveness of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 fourth government coalition, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest tabloid, ...
The mayor of BMW hometown Munich is considering a ban on diesel cars to curb emission levels in the south German metropolis, Nina Bovensiepen writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎s much as I鈥檇 be happy to do without this kind of bans, I don鈥檛 see how we will ...
Euro 6 diesel cars on average emit more than double the amount of NOx as modern trucks or buses, according to emissions data from Germany and Finland examined by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). 鈥淭丑别 average NOx emissions of the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 cities have warned for over a year that the car industry is headed for a front crash since first court hearings in the context of emissions limit violations by diesel cars had started, Jasper van Altenbockum writes in an op-ed for Frankfurter ...
Diesel cars use more fuel and thus emit more CO鈧� than carmakers specify, according to previously unreleased test results by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), reports Bernhard P枚tter for tageszeitung (taz). In the course of investigations ...
痴辞濒办蝉飞补驳别苍鈥檚 sound annual balance for 2016 encourages the German carmaker heavyweight to devise ambitious plans again- despite the ongoing diesel emissions fraud scandal potentially threatening the company鈥檚 survival in its current form, Max H盲gler writes ...
The Green Party might have been the first to call for a phase-out of the combustion engine, yet they could still end up without political gains, Barbara Gillmann writes in a commentary on business website Handelsblatt Online. Setting an end date for the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new transport minister, who did not mention climate protection and the transition to a sustainable transport system in his maiden speech to parliament, has not understood the signs of the times, according to sustainable transport association VCD ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading lobbyist for the car industry, Matthias Wissmann, says that those opponents of the use of cars who today fight for the condemnation of diesel cars in the wake of the emissions fraud scandal will eventually turn against electric cars as ...
Driving bans would fall short of what鈥檚 needed to make transportation more sustainable, according to Olaf Lies, social democrat environment minister in Lower Saxony, where carmaker VW is based. 鈥淚 am sure we can get by in Lower Saxony without driving bans ...
The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) together with auto club ADAC will file a class action lawsuit against Volkswagen for 鈥渋ntentionally and immorally causing harm to and betraying customers with software manipulation鈥� to obfuscate its ...
The conservative CDU/CSU group in the German parliament has rebuffed a proposal by social democratic environment minister Barbara Hendricks to allow cities to ban diesel engines when they deem it necessary, Thomas 脰chsner writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. ...
Driving bans on diesel vehicles will take effect on selected roads in Hamburg after Whitsunday, the city鈥檚 environment senator, Jens Kerstan, told the newspaper Die Welt. 鈥淭丑别 road signs have been ordered, and once everything is settled legally, the rule ...
03 Dec 2020, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv Registrations of new pure electric cars rose six-fold in Germany in November compared to a year ago, to reach a share of ten percent. A record 28,965 pure electric cars were registered last month, an ...
German NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says a court ruling in Stuttgart on banning certain diesel models from entering the inner city showed the bans were 鈥渏ustified鈥� and 鈥渦navoidable鈥�. The group that originally filed the lawsuit said the ruling ...
Battery-powered urban buses will eventually replace combustion engines in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 public transportation systems, writes Christoph M. Schwarzer in Die Zeit. He says they will be cleaner and become significantly cheaper in the near future. 鈥淩apidly ...
Allegations of a cartel of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important carmakers to agree on prices, suppliers and technology standards have cost the industry a great deal of credibility, the Green Party state premier of Baden-W眉rttemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, has said, ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Transport Heating dpa / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 state-owned railway company Deutsche Bahn will have to pay between 40 million and 50 million euros for the use of fossil fuels like diesel and heating ...
The Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) environmental protection association has blasted the German environment ministry鈥檚 decision to put on hold 鈥渂lue badge鈥� plans that would facilitate diesel car bans in cities. 鈥淒espite 10,400 premature deaths and several ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:04 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Wind Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Deutsche Bahn (DB) will help to continue the operation of two wind farms marketed ...
Diesel cars, and older models in particular, are responsible for high levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution in German city centres, according to Federal Environment Agency (UBA). 57 percent of measuring stations close to traffic showed pollution exceeding ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Hydrogen 91tv State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn plans to test a hydrogen-powered train in an effort to ...
A research group, funded by German carmakers to design a study to show that modern diesel cars are clean, conducted an experiment in the US which exposed monkeys to diesel fumes- a 鈥渘ew dimension in the global emissions scandal鈥�, writes the New York Times ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important carmakers have met in 鈥渟ecret workshops鈥� since the 1990s in order to coordinate their exhaust gas treatment systems and collude to fix technology, costs and suppliers, weekly news magazine Der Spiegel and associated website ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced support for the idea of banning internal combustion engine cars sometime in the future, as planned by other European countries, such as France and the UK. 鈥淚 cannot name a specific date now, but the approach is ...
Concrete measures to improve air quality in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most polluted cities are one of her new government鈥檚 first tasks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Klaus Kleber in an interview with broadcaster ZDF. 鈥淭丑别 new transport minister 鈥� but I myself will ...
The VW Group subsidiary Audi apparently used software manipulation to stay below US emissions limits in its diesel engines for years, even though it has been denying this charge, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. An engineer wrote an email to managers as early ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government and the country鈥檚 municipalities want to use the so-called diesel summit to set up a programme worth over one billion euros to improve air quality in German cities and prevent looming driving bans for polluting cars, Zeit ...
The European Commission approved 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 70 million euro scheme to encourage public transport operators to replace conventional diesel buses with electric or plug-in hybrids running on renewable electricity under state aid rules, the Commission writes ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices 91tv Reports that one billion euros of funding to improve 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 railways will instead be spent on building more roads have alarmed rail transport associations and NGOs in ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:31 The German government must be on guard in 2024 to ensure it can meet its increasingly distant target of having 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030, says Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility think tank ...
Dieselgate is not over yet for carmaker Volkswagen despite several agreements and progress made in Germany and worldwide over the past couple of days, write Carsten Germis and Roland Lindner in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淭丑别 largest remaining factor ...
12 Jan 2023, 11:20 Netflix styles itself as a climate action leader, but the world鈥檚 most popular video streaming service is far from eliminating all of its emissions, despite a 2022 net zero target. The US company with more than 220 million subscribers ...
Several German cities, including Berlin, Munich, Bremen, and Stuttgart, are considering banning older diesel cars in order to bring harmful nitrogen oxide emissions within EU limits, according to a survey by press agency dpa. The ban would mean only cars ...
04 Nov 2020, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv Pure electric cars' share of new car registrations in Germany reached 8.4 percent in October as a record number of car buyers opted for alternative propulsion systems.聽The number of new purely ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:39 Jack McGovan Cars Spiegel German chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to meet with heads of the car industry this coming Monday to discuss electric vehicle targets as part of the country鈥檚 plans to move away from fossil fuels, reports Spiegel. ...
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02 Oct 2015, 00:00 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淪upport for nuclear plant operators鈥� The home region of battered utilities RWE and E.ON has suggested the companies should receive state aid if their provisions for nuclear decommissioning prove too small ...
Primary energy consumption in Germany will be about one third lower in 2040 than it is today, US energy company Exxon Mobil says in a press release on its prognosis for the German energy demand. Exxon says increased efficiency and a change of energy ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:44 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv New internal combustion engine vehicles should be taxed exclusively according to their CO2 emissions to accelerate the switch to electric mobility, the Climate Neutrality Foundation writes in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) 鈥渟ugarcoated鈥� reports on the emissions scandal investigation, bowing to pressure from the auto industry, writes Hanno Kautz in an article for Bild. In the original version of the report from 2016, KBA ...
German car manufacturer Volkswagen said it plans to buy battery cells and related technology worth around 20 billion euros for electric-vehicle projects in Europe and China, news agency Reuters reports. A supplier decision for North America will be taken ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Cars Die Welt / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sudden cut of electric vehicle purchasing subsidies has caused carmakers to outdo each other with heavy discounts, reports Die Welt. Tesla, the U.S. electric car company, cut the ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:53 Jennifer Collins Policy Society Table.Media A new German think tank is set to focus on the impacts of climate change and climate policy on society, according to Table.Media. Founded by Brigitte Knopf, a member of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Council of ...
German postal service Deutsche Post has found the first major customer for its in-house produced electric vehicle Street Scooter, Florian Zerfass writes in weekly Bild am Sonntag (BamS). Fish wholesaler Deutsche See is buying 80 scooters for distributing ...
17 May 2023, 12:56 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Start-ups S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Munich-based electric car start-up Sono Motors has filed for insolvency and it is unlikely that clients will get their pre-payment for one of its PV-clad vehicles back,聽 reports ...
There is mounting evidence that the German government will oppose stricter car fleet emission limits at EU level in exchange for carmakers鈥� consent to cover the hardware retrofitting costs in certain types of diesel vehicles, reports the Frankfurter ...
Negotiators in the ongoing talks to renew 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grand coalition of conservatives (CDU, CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) want to avoid inner city driving bans and consider hardware retrofitting for older diesel cars to bring down nitrogen oxide ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:30 Ruby Russel Transport Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Projects to build green hydrogen electrolysers at refineries are being cancelled because oil companies lack guarantees that the investments will be profitable, even though the ...
In a bid to avoid EU fines for excessive air pollution, the German government is considering plans to make public transport free of charge to improve air quality in cities. Transport experts welcomed the proposed measures designed to lure more people onto ...
14 Dec 2018, 10:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The Association for the German Language (GfdS) has made the term 鈥淗ei脽zeit鈥� (hot age) its Word of the Year 2018, saying it neatly conveys a topic that ...
03 Jul 2018, 15:30 Cars fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG) could reach a share of up to ten percent of the total fleet in Germany and Europe, says Stephen Neumann, Volkswagen Group Officer for Natural Gas Mobility in an interview with the Clean ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:35 Cars Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) The implementation of new emissions tests for cars has led to a large increase in average vehicle tax for newly registered vehicles in Germany, the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) reports. ...
13 Sep 2023, 14:20 Jack McGovan Cars Die Welt British oil company BP wants to build around 20,000 鈥渦ltrafast鈥� charging stations for electric cars as part of a larger investment push in Germany, reports Die Welt. By 2030, the company aims to invest a total ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs SWR / 91tv / dpa Germany is debating a range of ideas to boost sales of electric vehicles (EV) and support the transition of one of the country鈥檚 most important industries. The ...
27 May 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Transport 91tv Germany should lead the way in making mobility more sustainable, transport and environmental association Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) said following the conclusion of the聽 ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:14 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology S枚ren Amelang Mobility Transport Hydrogen 91tv Trains with alternative propulsion systems have a large market potential in ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:38 S枚ren Amelang Cars dpa / Die Welt / 91tv People in Germany are set to buy more pure electric cars and plug-in hybrids than diesel cars soon, a survey commissioned by price comparison website Verivox shows, news agency dpa ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:20 Expert Ferdinand Dudenh枚ffer Professor and Director, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany should double the price for diesel and petrol fuel ...
The electric car will eventually take over as the dominant type of vehicle in Germany and this shift is going to cost the country jobs but clinging to the combustion engine would nonetheless be a big mistake, Christian Hochfeld, head of transportation ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs 91tv Energy consumption in Germany has fallen significantly in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period one year before, energy industry and research initiative ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Technology Handelsblatt German ship engine manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions is pushing for climate-neutral fuels to replace marine diesel, Christoph Schlautmann writes in business daily Handelsblatt. ...
28 Oct 2019, 13:50 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv Carmaker Daimler plans to end the use of diesel engines in heavy duty vehicles over the next two decades, promising "CO2 ...
05 Nov 2021, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Transport Cost & Prices 91tv / dpa Germany should kickstart the transition to a sustainable transport system with a range of drastic policies, the country's environment agency (UBA) ...
Testing the effect of exhaust fumes on monkeys and even people cannot be ethically justified, Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 spokesperson Steffen Seibert said at a press conference on Monday. The public outcry against the tests which exposed monkeys and ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:47 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / AFP Germany stepped up the fight against climate change at the start of ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:17 S枚ren Amelang Policy 91tv Contradictory tax incentives are a major hurdle for making the German economy more climate-friendly, according to an聽 analysis 聽by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) commissioned by the Bertelsmann ...
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22 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online 鈥淐oalition wants to push through fracking law on Friday鈥� The government has scheduled 聽the Bundestag聽vote on a law restricting fracking in Germany for ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, says Germany must regain its leadership position in the international effort to reduce carbon emissions. 鈥淕ermany quickly has to restore its pioneering role in climate action,鈥� Schulze said during her ...
Prosecutors have searched the headquarters of German carmaker Audi looking for evidence of suspected manipulation of diesel exhaust gas values, news agency Reuters reports. It is the second time in a year Audi鈥檚 premises have been raided in connection ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market Cost & Prices Policy Zeit Online The German government might not have enough money to pass on revenues from its national carbon price to citizens as a compensation for rising climate protection costs as ...
02 Feb 2024, 14:35 Franca Quecke Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv The German parliament has passed the 2024 federal budget after delays caused by a聽constitutional court ruling on the country's debt limit and subsequent ...
31 Jan 2024, 13:26 Ruby Russel Transport Cars 91tv Carmakers are under-reporting CO2 emissions from their vehicles, and the gap between official figures and reality is growing,聽 according to calculations by the Council on Clean Transportation ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv German exports of electric cars rose more than 65 percent last year to some 500,000 units valued at 24.2 billion euros, statistical office (Destatis) reports. While foreign trade of electric vehicles is ...
The diesel emissions debate has 鈥渇urther sparked鈥� customers鈥� interest in Deutsche Post DHL鈥檚 electric delivery van, said the company鈥檚 financial head Melanie Kreis in a telephone conference, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Read the article in ...
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05 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/WAZ 鈥淢inister Gabriel does not want to 鈥榮have鈥� utilities鈥� German energy minister Sigmar Gabriel surprised stockmarkets with conciliatory remarks about the country鈥檚 troubled ...
04 Jun 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Spiegel The political dispute about rising petrol prices in Germany shows the hypocrisy of many politicians鈥� climate policy approaches, writes Gerald Traufetter in an opinion ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country鈥檚 transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:42 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Society 91tv A large majority of Germans say that public transportation services should be offered free of charge, ...
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The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether BMW, Daimler and VW colluded, in breach of EU antitrust rules, to avoid competition on the development and roll-out of technology to clean the emissions of petrol and diesel ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:10 S枚ren Amelang Cars DPA / Tagesspiegel The city of Hamburg is the first German state to ban new registrations of combustion engine taxis from 2025, reports newswire DPA in an article published in Tagesspiegel. "We hope that this ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:43 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Cost & Prices Society Government 91tv / Spiegel / Table.Media Following a noisy backlash from farmers, the German government coalition has decided to backtrack on planned cuts to climate ...
21 Apr 2020, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cars Green stimulus dpa / Handelsblatt / taz / FAZ / WirtschaftsWoche Several German newspapers have run commentaries critical of a proposed buyer鈥檚 premium on cars. The premium would support the car industry in dealing ...
The latest diesel summit of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government and representatives of municipalities with high levels of air pollution has been a 鈥渇ailure鈥�, J眉rgen Resch, head of organisation Environmental Action Germany (DUH), said in a press release. None of ...
Audi CEO Rupert Stadler has been arrested over allegations that he played a role in Volkswagen (VW) Group鈥檚 diesel emissions cheating scandal, the Financial Times reports, a week after Munich prosecutors raided his private residence. Stadler has served as ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Policy 91tv / dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German parliament has voted in favour of a higher starting price for the country鈥檚 new CO2 reduction scheme in the heating and transport sectors, dpa ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:07 Edgar Meza Freight 91tv All new trucks being registered in Germany from 2035 could be battery-electric if a broad-scale charging network is available by then, according to the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut). ...
10 Apr 2018, 00:00 The current legislative period has to be used to significantly advance the mobility transition in Germany, ensuring that the country remains a technology leader, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier at a mobility conference ...
German carmaker 痴辞濒办蝉飞补驳别苍鈥檚 technical fixes for manipulated diesel cars are much more effective in the US than in Europe, Emma Howard reports for Unearthed. While the changes made in the US 鈥渕ake a huge difference鈥� to nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, the ...
22 May 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology French manufacturer Alstom plans to deliver 27 hydrogen fuel cell trains to subsidiary fahma of regional public transport provider RMV in the central German state of Hesse by 2022, ...
The share of pure electric vehicles in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new car registrations climbed to 1.3 percent in October, as the number of new EVs increased 55 percent year-on-year, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). The share of hybrid cars rose ...
Volkswagen plans to drop diesel vehicles in the United States and refocus on sport utility and electric vehicles, reports Andreas Cremer for Reuters. The move, announced by VW brand chief Herbert Diess, breaks with earlier suggestions it could return to ...
German premium car brand Audi, a division of Volkswagen, said it was fined 800 million euros for violations tied to heavily polluting six and eight-cylinder diesel engines, reports Edward Taylor for Reuters. Audi accepts the fine and will not lodge an ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv The reform of an energy consumption label for passenger cars underestimates the projected CO2 price of transport fuels like diesel and petrol, consumer protection ...
26 Aug 2022, 14:20 The German government has introduced a package of energy saving provisions for businesses and state entities that will take effect in September, just as key relief measures run out and citizens are set to face higher prices for fuels ...
15 Jun 2020, 14:43 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv Newly registered cars in Germany with high CO2 emissions will be charged an increased tax by 2021 in order to "align the ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:34 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars 91tv The number of new electric car registrations in Germany rose almost 44 percent to around 36,000 in 2018, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). Given the ...
11 Jan 2024, 14:17 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Policy Table.Media / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt The German government plans to cut development aid and funds earmarked for rail freight transport and cycling paths as part of saving ...
Diesel car registrations in Germany fell by 21.3 percent in September compared to a year earlier, pushing their share of all registrations down to 36.3 percent. Petrol cars鈥� share rose to almost 60 percent, said the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) ...
Of all places, the region now developing really clean diesel engines publicly withdraws confidence from the technology, comments local newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Local politicians fighting against combustion technology seem to forget which ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:05 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Cars Cities Reuters German carmaker BMW has said that its hybrid cars could be converted to automatically disable the combustion engine when entering inner city areas, reports Reuters. BMW is ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Clean ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv / Zeit Online Car registrations in Germany have risen by 13 percent in the first half of 2023- compared to the same period last year- with the number of newly registered electric vehicles ...
03 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany's primary energy consumption is likely to remain broadly unchanged this year, according to estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). While data for the first nine months of the year indicate a ...
We are welcoming Mwelwa Musonko (@MwelxTax) as our visiting cartoonist at 91tv. Mwelwa is a Zambian comic book artist and founder of Foresight Comics who is in Germany for the summer after winning the Horst-K枚hler-Journalism-Grant of the International ...
The Green Party seems to have 鈥渓earned nothing new鈥� and is living up to its image of 鈥渢he prohibition party鈥�, writes Silke Kersting in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt about the party鈥檚 proposal to ban diesel and petrol engines for newly-registered cars ...
The German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has unveiled plans to save up to twelve million litres of diesel fuel per year by modernising its locomotives with digital technology, Handelsblatt reports. DB says it wants to save up to 30,000 tonnes of CO2 ...
The diesel emissions scandal and the push for e-mobility will allow German automotive industry supplier Continental to 鈥済row stronger than the market鈥� in the long-term, Member of the Executive Board Wolfgang Sch盲fer told Handelsblatt in an interview. ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 fossil fuel support policy makes the energy transition more expensive, shifts follow-up costs to taxpayers and costs the country 46 billion euros annually, according to a study by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) commissioned by Greenpeace. The ...
Only two in five diesel car drivers plan to stick with the technology when buying their next car, while the rest are unsure or want to switch to an alternative drive, according to a survey by pollster forsa, reports news agency dpa. Most respondents said ...
German Social Democratic (SPD) chancellor candidate Martin Schulz鈥檚 call for a European e-mobility quota "seems like a shot from a blank gun鈥�, writes Peter Fahrenholz in an opinion piece in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎s a Europe expert, Schulz knows only ...
Greenpeace鈥檚 Andr茅e B枚hling welcomed the call for a European e-mobility quota by SPD chancellor candidate Martin Schulz as 鈥渁 right signal to manufacturers and consumers鈥�, but criticises the lack of a date. 鈥淚f the chancellor candidate is serious about ...
14 Feb 2022, 14:15 Jessica Bateman Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Film industry leaders and politicians in Germany have announced plans for climate standards in film production, S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Online reports. 聽Speaking at a panel event during the ...
German energy company E.ON will integrate the emergency power generators of airport operator Fraport at Frankfurt airport 鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest airline hub 鈥� in its virtual power plant, the company said. The diesel generators can feed up to 5 megawatt of ...
The financial contribution German carmakers BMW, Daimler and VW will make to the 鈥渃lean air emergency programme鈥� has been secured, acting transport minister Christian Schmidt has said in a press release. 鈥淭丑别 German manufacturers will pay the share of 250 ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 image as a pioneer and enabler of renewable energy has suffered over the past years due to the diesel emissions scandal and the government鈥檚 reluctance to initiate a coal phase-out, writes Gregor Vulturius, research fellow at the Stockholm ...
Many cities might be forced to introduce bans on diesel cars because their nitrogen oxide emission levels exceed legal limits, reports Jasper von Altenbockum in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The German Cities Council blames the situation on carmakers鈥� ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first liquefied natural gas (LNG) filling station for trucks has been opened in the city of Ulm. Energy company Uniper and transporter manufacturer Iveco operate the test facility. Uniper announced that it envisaged building a network of LNG ...
The state government of Baden-Wurttemberg wants to introduce selective inner city driving bans for older diesel cars if plans for a nationwide 鈥榖lue badge鈥� are not realised, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). A cabinet decision draft by the ...
The traditional car industry is being hit by the adoption of electric vehicles, big data, tighter emissions limits and diesel bans, and German carmakers are faring the worst in many cases, writes Patrick McGee in Financial Times. It might not yet be clear ...
26 Jul 2017, 00:00 The SPD, Germany's oldest party, has been a junior partner to Angela Merkel's conservative union in the grand coalition since 2013. The Social Democrats have traditionally been the country's "labour party" and ...
The聽 probing of Audi 聽for a potential new illegal emissions device is proof of the brazen abuse of clients鈥� trust by carmakers, writes Gerald Traufetter in a commentary on Spiegel Online. BMW, Mercedes, and VW have used their lobbying machinery to prevent ...
Driving restrictions for cars that aim to cut down on air pollution in certain areas are permissible, a German court has ruled, according to a Reuters report. "Safeguarding health is more important than the right to property and the general liberty ...
German prosecutors have made the first arrest at carmaker Audi over the emissions fraud scandal, S眉ddeutsche Zeitung reports. The former engine developer who worked at Audi until a few months ago allegedly helped develop the emissions manipulation ...
The resolute application of a ban on diesel vehicles in big cities would upset economic activity as trucks, delivery vans and buses for public transport would be prohibited as well, writes Holger Appel in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
E-cars are already expensive, and more efficient conventional engines will also become more costly regardless of whether they use petrol or diesel, writes Joachim Becker in a commentary in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚ndividual mobility will therefore become ...
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche told the carmaker's shareholders investments in e-mobility will weigh on company results, reports the news agency dpa. 鈥淢ore electric cars are good for the CO鈧� footprint, but not so good for our corporate earnings 鈥� at ...
Electric trucks with low noise emissions could be used in the German state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) for night-time deliveries in inner cities, which would also reduce traffic volumes during the day, the Rheinische Post reports. NRW transport minister ...
Local governments have so far focussed on diesel vehicles in their air pollution control plans. However, such plans could also include provisions for power plants and coal mines, writes Thorsten Knuf in Berliner Zeitung, citing a report by the research ...
More than one year after the start of the VW scandal over illegal emissions manipulations, 贰耻谤辞辫别鈥檚 largest carmaker has made slow progress in retrofitting affected cars in Germany, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. According to the government, the use of the ...
