News Digest Item
14 Aug 2017

“It cannot continue to be business as usual”

Frankfurter Rundschau

It is wrong to focus the debate about the future of transport solely on switching from diesel and petrol cars to e-mobility, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. “Besides climate-friendly engines, we need a comprehensive mobility transition.” This included using the potentials of avoiding traffic, switching to bicycles, and better integrating different modes of transportation to establish a “less car-focussed system”, writes Wille.

Read the opinion piece in German here.

For background, read the CLEW dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.

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