News Digest Item
06 Apr 2017

Car lobby: Those who want to ban diesel cars are against climate protection

German car association (VDA) / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The German car industry has stepped up its rhetoric against looming diesel car bans, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. “Whoever wants to ban diesel is also against climate protection,” said the head of the German carmakers’ association (VDA), Matthias Wissmann, at an event in Berlin. He said the German car industry could not manage the shift to e-mobility without profits from diesel sales.

Read the article in German here.

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