Germany Has Started To Ban Older Diesels From City Centres
The Northern German industrial city of Hamburg has begun to prepare a ban on diesels in the city centre, after receiving backing from Germany’s highest court.
Around 100 signs have been placed around the city centre, diverting older diesels away from two key streets, presumably where pollution is worst and pedestrian populations are highest.
Hamburg authorities are still waiting for the legal say on whether the ban can apply only to Euro 4-standard diesels from 2009 or earlier, or to Euro 5 cars built as recently as 2014. Either way, the ban will start to be enforced later this month.
Critics of the plans, approved in February and granting appropriate powers to all German city councils if they want to introduce bans, say that effectively blocking certain streets just forces drivers of more polluting diesels to drive longer distances through the city as they navigate around the centre.
Germany, like the UK, is facing massive fines over the level of pollution in its cities. German political power is bolstered in making anti-diesel moves by the fallout from the dieselgate scandal, which is said to be proving extremely motivating for the country’s law makers.
Monthly sales of new diesel cars in the UK have fallen by as much as 25 per cent versus last year, but demand for used diesels has actually risen. There’s a deep irony in there somewhere.
Source: Autocar
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Is it just trucks, or old diesel cars?
Well if you take a old subcompact and compare it to a 5L V8 Sports car
Then thats the only way an old car would be more efficient
In Milan they already banned “non-eco friendly” vehicles in some parts of the city a long time ago, just the hybrid and electric cars can pass free and if you need to pass you need to pay. Even in smaller cities here in Italy cars below euro 4 diesels are banned in city centers and now it’s starting to ban euro 4 too.
Problem is, the old Diesels in our city aren’t producing nearly as much crap as the ships that’re in the harbor without using power from the city but instead just letting their engines run while they’re unloaded/reloaded.
Poor Miles :(
This is why they got relegated🤷🏼♂️
aren’t all of the diesel engine bans just because of dieselgate and emissions cheating in general, not an incentive to reduce global temperatures before its too late?
Lol I guess I can’t drive any of my parent’s vehicles in Germany. 1998 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins, 1992 Volkswagen Jetta with an AAZ making about double what it’s supposed to, 2009 Volkswagen Jetta, 1974 Porsche 914 that’s soon to have the AAZ from the Jetta, 1960 Champion 562C road grader with a 495ci 4 cylinder NA Cummins, not even the 1957(?) Ford Dexta with a 3 cylinder Perkins.
Well rules like this just kill cooler cars… Yes, when vehicle is 30 years old and unmodified then it can use the benefits of historical plates, but think about cars that have to get to said 30 years old age. Cars like Safrane Biturbo are younger than that and they are already a true high performance classic, which will have harder time surviving
Yay 😁 I have been driving behind them for ages!!!! Celebrating