“The blue diesel ghost”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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. Appel calls for alternatives: “City buses with fuel cells, taxis with hybrid drive, government fleets with electric motors – those would be useful measures.”
For background, read the CLEW dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.
All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a
“Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)”
.
They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a
link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.