News Digest Item
05 Jul 2016

“Cities threatened by diesel driving bans”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Many cities might be forced to introduce bans on diesel cars because their nitrogen oxide emission levels exceed legal limits, reports Jasper von Altenbockum in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The German Cities Council blames the situation on carmakers’ emission manipulations. “We don’t know how we could guarantee emission limits in the short-term without driving bans […] The car industry must offer concrete solutions,” said council head Helmut Dedy.

Read the article in German here.

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