Germany to join diesel ban soon – chancellor Merkel

Germany to join diesel ban soon – chancellor Merkel

Paris, Madrid and Mexico City set plans to ban diesel cars by 2025, with Norway planning to ban both petrols and diesels within a similar timeline. More recently France and Britain outlined plans to do the same by 2040.

Now, Germany is next to introduce a ban on the sale of new diesel-powered cars in the future, said German chancellor Angela Merkel in an Autocar report, though no set timeline has been confirmed yet. Britain’s move to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars was “the right approach,” said Merkel in a interview with German magazine Superille.

It’s also important to protect jobs in the German automotive sector – which has been weathering the Dieselgate scandal – which employs more than 800,000 people and is the country’s largest exporter, Merkel added. The German government’s help in promoting new technology and developing infrastructure is key in the industry’s shift to electric and alternative powertrains, she added.

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Comments

  • Bernard on Aug 17, 2017 at 2:01 pm

    I am sure Bolehland will do it as well by the year 3000. Just a matter of time.

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    • Malaysia don’t have crazy stupid rainbow people to force unworkable agenda on the population. Mainstream electric cars are real only in the warped minds of rainbow people, who usually travel around in bicycles.

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    • Albert Yong on Aug 17, 2017 at 6:04 pm

      Here we are still using Ron 95 Euro 2M. So filthy and so dangerous for health. Euro 2M is Euro 1.5, banned in Europe 20 years ago. EU said Euro 2M is same as arsenic poison.

      So don’t talk about diesel. But in Malaysia, bulk of diesel cars and lorries still use the Euro 2 dirty diesel cause they want to save money.

      Gomen is still selling dirty diesel in Malaysia that kills the rakyat

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    • ex-VGM staff on Aug 18, 2017 at 8:49 am

      by that time world oil had depleted completely.

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  • Habislah VW!

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    • camtakpro on Aug 17, 2017 at 4:17 pm

      Why habis? They just want to save VW by banning diesel. If VW were to do petrolgate, they would had ban petrol instead of diesel.

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      • VW spend Billions in diesel tech
        VW most customer is diesel car
        VW most advantage is diesel engine

        So VW will habislah. If they banned diesel b4 Dieselgate, then it might save VW but now is nasi jadi bubur jadi topkek. How to save VW?

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        • ReadTheFinePrint on Aug 17, 2017 at 7:35 pm

          All you guys talk like you know what is happening in Germany. Do you know that all decisions by the Chancellor in Germany only takes place after consulting all the car companies? Do you alos know that VW is the world’s biggest employer among car companies? Do you really think the Chancellor would want to “kill herself” by making such a decision without consulting VW, which is partially owned by Germany’s most powerful state, which is also to world’s most economically powerful state?

          Also VW has already announced many times that they want to exit the combustion engine business and become full electric. So there you have it. VW will still be okay with this decision.

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          • If Merkel has to consult (or u mean seek consent?) from VW lords, then that begs to question. Who controls sausage gov?

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          • Starlet on Aug 18, 2017 at 5:42 am

            Toyota is biggest and VW is going down.

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        • Albert Yong on Aug 17, 2017 at 8:09 pm

          sounds like Proton- already become like you said bubur

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          • Nope. P1 got others running to rescue. VW got pipu running away!

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        • Bog Std on Aug 18, 2017 at 6:12 am

          dont know what he is talking about. apa benda bubur?

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        • in the end, maybe only proton left as the only carmaker in the world producing petrol engine cars. the rest all electric. rejoice!

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    • Albert Yong on Aug 17, 2017 at 6:11 pm

      dont talk about VW, especially VW in Malaysia. They are so desperate. Ask people to test drive their Passat and if you say you don’t like it, they will give you free RM100 Touch n GO card.

      This desperate la

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  • This news was the reason this week diesel price decrease while petrol increase.

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  • Dale Ismail on Aug 17, 2017 at 5:49 pm

    Waddaya mean Malaysia will follow the trend? Malaysia will soon be the dumping ground for all those diesel models!

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  • funkyMonkey on Aug 17, 2017 at 6:03 pm

    Malaysia will follow suit approximately 100 years from now…..

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  • davehicks on Aug 17, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    invention by a nation then sacked by its own, how ironic. poor Rudolph’s ghost…

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  • Semi-Value (Member) on Aug 17, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    but don ban petrol k

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  • pondan2 on Aug 18, 2017 at 7:47 am

    bolehland only started not too long on euro 5 diesel and the world is moving on. Next, the world diesel cars will be made available in bolehland . dumping ground

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