“No driving bans in Stuttgart after all?”
Stuttgarter Zeitung / Spiegel Online
It remains uncertain whether Mercedes’ and Porsche’s 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 “not set in stone yet”: “We haven’t imposed driving bans yet, and maybe they won’t come at all.” He said the bans could be avoided if the car industry managed to retrofit older diesel engines to reduce local air pollution. During a visit to a Mercedes factory, Kretschmann said: “Clean diesel engines exist, and they will come.”
Read the interview in German here and an article in Spiegel Online on the issue here.
For background, read the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.
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