“Diesel drives out of the market”

Impending driving bans for diesel cars in several German cities could spell the end for the technology in the country, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. Driving bans in Stuttgart and Munich have been substantiated in the past weeks and pending action in many other cities already alienated many customers from diesel engines, FAZ reports. The share of diesel models in new car sales in Germany fell 11 percent in February, four times as much as the total decrease in new car sales, writes news agency Reuters in a separate article. Diesel engines emit less CO₂ than petrol engines but their higher emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and the resulting effect on particulate matter pollution levels is what pushes diesel out of the cities, FAZ explains.

Read the Reuters article in English here.

For background, see the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.