News Digest Item
10 Oct 2016

“Diesel share of new vehicles falls to lowest in five years”

Focus Online / Federal Motor Transport Authority

Diesel cars’ 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 Dudenhöffer, director of the Center for Automotive Research, told the author the decline of diesel cars is likely to continue because consumers are unsettled by the dieselgate scandal and the possibility of diesel bans in cities.

Read the article in German here.

Find the Federal Motor Transport Authority’s official statistics release here.

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