News Digest Item
30 Aug 2016

“E-busses to save climate in the inner cities”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)

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). “The targets of the UN climate conference in Paris at the end of 2015 put pressure on city governments,” writes Schwenn. Part of the solution could be the switch from diesel engines to electric motors in public transport, but the cost of e-vehicles would put a high burden on municipal budgets, writes Schwenn.

Read the FAZ article in German here.

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