“Doubts about Dobrindt’s toll revenues“

Introducing a toll for passenger cars on German highways might yield far lower returns than the annual 500 million euros expected by transport minister Alexander Dobrindt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. A study by the NGO Green Budget Germany (FÖS) commissioned by the Green Party found that a growing number of cars fulfilling the Euro-6 emissions standard, whose owners will have to pay less for the planned road tax discs, could shrink net revenues by as much as 20 million euros per year, FAZ reports. The transport ministry dismissed the study as “unsound,” saying that it was not based on current data, according to the newspaper.

Read the article in German here and the FÖS’s study in German here.

For more information on Germany’s mobility systems and the Energiewende, read The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.