“The fairy tale about the pending ban on petrol and diesel cars”

There will be no official ban on combustion engines soon, despite the recent resolution of Germany’s upper house of parliament (Bundesrat) that new cars should be emission-free in the EU by 2030, writes Nikolaus Doll in Die Welt. Transport minister Alexander Dobrindt and Bavaria’s state premier Horst Seehofer, both from Bavaria’s sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, would veto a ban. Baden-Württemberg’s Green state premier Winfried Kretschmann is also against setting a deadline, according to the article. A government spokesperson in VW’s home country Niedersachsen explained the aim of the Bundesrat resolution was not a ban, but to create the right conditions that only emission-free vehicles will be registered.

Read the article in German here.  

For background, read the CLEW article German states - New cars in EU should be emission-free by 2030.