The outlawing of internal combustion engines has officially begun, with Stuttgart being the first to do so. The German city, which is home to Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, has begun banning diesel vehicles up to the Euro 4 emissions standard starting from April 1 – and no, that’s not a joke.
According to Automotive News Europe, the ruling – which will affect not only incoming visitors but also those who live in Stuttgart itself – will bar these oil-burning vehicles from being driven or parked in the city unless drivers can obtain an exemption.
Although cars conforming to standards Euro 5 and above are spared for now, the local government said it will make a decision on a more widespread ban after examining emissions results in the middle of the year.
This follows after the city failed to overturn a court ruling to ban Euro 5 diesel vehicles from the city centre by end-2019, a result of being sued by environmental group DUH for failing to uphold European Union clean air rules. In February last year, Germany’s highest administrative court ruled that banning diesel passenger cars is legally permissible in cities, with Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin now allowed to implement similar bans.
The ban was first announced by the Baden-Württemberg state government in July, Deutsche Welle reported. “From 2019 there will be a driving restriction in the green environmental zone for older diesel Euro 4 and below with a transitional arrangement for local residents and reasonable exceptions for tradesmen and delivery services,” said head of the ruling Green parliamentary group Andreas Schwarz at the time.
Referring to Volkswagen’s “Dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal, Germany’s environmental minister Svenja Schulze responded by urging the federal government to set rules on recalls for affected cars.
“The longer you wait for older diesels to be retrofitted with hardware, the more likely we are to see driving bans. Now diesel owners have to pay for the massive mistakes of the car industry,” she said, adding that without these technical updates “we will be unable to reach our goal of making the air in the cities cleaner.”
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Meanwhile in Bolehland……..
Citizens are still breathing in toxic Euro 2M petrol & diesel.
Bolehladers have lungs of steel.
No wonder MY pipu live way longer than most Europe pipu~
Euro 2 was banned in Europe in 1994. That was 25 years ago. This is because Euro 2 was proven to be toxic, cancer causing and carcinogenic
The Government has no will to give cleaner petrol and diesel to Malaysians.
Singapore gave Euro 4 petrol to its rakyat 10 years ago. This shows how progressive and hard working Singapore is.
Relax my friend. Generally there are more diesel vehicles in Europe compared to our beloved bolehLAND. Emission regulations in Europe are also getting really strict as it goes. Kudos to the German city for implementing such a rule. It will work like a domino affect with the rest of the world’s major cities. It is not an easy thing to just to just change overnight. Slowly but surely. :)
Malaysians generally live longer because they don’t use as much coal burning as do Europeans do. Their main killer is soot particles from burning coal.
Banning diesel cars below Euro4? Meh! Malaysia will soon have flying cars powered by clean LPG energy according to our ministers.
correction….breathing B10 diesel
Stop using jargon english
Not only that, we still 2 Stoke motorcycles still me rempit around kl
congrats stuttgart, killing your own industry
inb4 majority Mesidis cars produced there r petrol powered, so Mesidis & Stuttgart sumpah tak kesah. This unlike VW & Beemers
Well VW are mostly produced in Germany. Congrats to Germany for killing their own industries then.