News Digest Item
29 Sep 2016

“Smoked out”

Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Paris Car show offers the opportunity to observe the creeping death of the diesel engine, write Thomas Fromm and Leo Klimm in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Carmakers are suddenly in a hurry to roll out e-cars, as the share of diesel sales decreases in Germany and France. New e-cars with larger driving ranges could kickstart lacklustre sales in Germany, according to the authors.

Read the CLEW article VW, Daimler take key step for e-mobility at Paris Car Show.

For background, read the CLEW factsheets Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility and Reluctant Daimler plans “radical” push into new mobility world.

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