News Digest Item
17 Aug 2016

“Waiting for the electric vehicle miracle”

Der Tagesspiegel

The diesel engine has been damaged by the emissions scandal and it will reach the end of its development capability in about a decade, but German automakers must nevertheless make diesel acceptable again, Henrik Mortsiefer writes in Der Tagesspiegel. New generations of modern diesel vehicles beyond the current E6 standard will come and without them it will not be possible to achieve the EU’s CO2 limits that are to come into effect in 2021. Modern diesel engines emit less CO2 than petrol-powered vehicles. Germany is not Norway, it is a leading auto-producing nation, Mortsiefer adds.

Read the article in German here.

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