German car industry still miles away from coming clean on emissions scandal – opinion
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Daimler’s embroilment in the car emissions manipulation scandal shows that Germany’s most important industry is still miles away from coming clean, writes Markus Balser in a commentary for the Süddeutsche Zeitung entitled “A heavy blow for [Daimler CEO Dieter] Zetsche.” In sharp contrast to Zetsche’s earlier claim that Daimler hasn't cheated, “his company apparently didn’t have any better ideas than to put illegal emissions defeat software into almost 800,000 cars in Europe.”
Read the commentary in German here.
For background, read the factsheet Reluctant Daimler plans “radical” push into new mobility world and the dossier BMW, Daimler, and VW vow to fight in green transport revolution.
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