Some 372,000 German owners of Volkswagen cars fitted with motors that cheated emissions tests have joined a
collective legal action against the auto giant, official figures showed Thursday.
As court disputes and policy debates about diesel pollution continue, the federal government has called on German carmakers to lift their standards to improve their image and win back public confidence.
Berlin’s Friedrichstraße is set to go car free one Saturday afternoon in December. With the fallout from the diesel scandal continuing and cycle use increasing, could this be a sign of the future for Germany’s urban centres?
German car giant Volkswagen said Thursday it is looking for three billion euros in new savings to help fund its pivot towards electric vehicles, adding that it could not rule out job cuts.
German auto giant Volkswagen will begin rolling out its last generation of combustion engine cars in 2026, in
its latest green pledge as it looks to turn the corner on the "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal.
German carmakers are to meet with top US officials at the White House on Tuesday, sources said, as US President Donald Trump mulls damaging tariff hikes on vehicles imported from the European Union.
The Cologne administrative court said Cologne must ban the dirtiest diesels from its centre and other streets from April 2019 to tackle dangerously high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions.
Schaeffler, a German maker of parts for cars and industrial products, announced Tuesday plans to shut two UK sites, with Brexit cited for axing up to a reported 500 jobs.
Volkswagen will on Thursday get a taste of the anger felt by duped German diesel drivers when consumer groups file the country's first class-action suit over an emissions cheating scandal.
Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and now Mainz. On Wednesday October 24th, the Administrative Court in the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital will rule on a possible driving ban on older diesel cars. The case comes amidst a heated political debate on banning diesel cars across Germany.
German high-end carmaker BMW said Tuesday it would recall more than one million additional diesel cars, citing a problem with the exhaust system that "in extreme cases can cause a fire".
Almost two-thirds of survey respondents think Chancellor Merkel is not doing enough for diesel drivers (65 per cent), with almost three quarters (72 per cent) saying they had zero confidence in the Chancellor’s ability to prevent the driving bans coming into effect.
Germany's KBA transport authority said Friday it had ordered carmaker Opel to recall tens of thousands of diesel
vehicles worldwide that were configured to fool regulatory emissions tests.
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Shares in German and other European car manufacturers fell on Friday after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 20 percent tariff on cars imported from the bloc, traders said.
An industrial powerhouse built on massive exports and a gigantic car industry, Germany is among the nations most sensitive to mounting trade tensions between the United States and other major economies.
Hamburg will on Thursday become the first German city to ban older diesel vehicles from some highly polluted
stretches of road, as public confidence in the once-loved technology goes up in smoke.
After associations earlier this week initiated a nationwide campaign to highlight the underestimated danger of falsely parked vehicles, people across the country have been taking action.
German automakers reacted with dismay Thursday as the US Commerce Department said tariffs on car imports could be on the horizon, potentially opening a new front in a burgeoning transatlantic trade conflict.
German luxury brand Audi has stopped production of its latest A6 model over suspicions it contains software to manipulate emissions controls, local media reported on Tuesday, as the "dieselgate" scandal continues to dog parent company Volkswagen.
