German Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars, Court Rules (cnet.com)

A German court has ruled that cities in Germany are allowed to enact bans on diesel vehicles, Reuters reports. It's unlikely that bans will magically appear across the country overnight, but not everyone in the country is happy about this decision. From a report: Environmentalists might be happy about the possibility of banning some of the road's dirtiest cars, but owners and right-leaning groups are not. Reuters reports that some politicians believe this decision could disenfranchise a large swath of car owners across the country, many of whom likely can't afford to immediately replace a vehicle.

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Forcing electric cars

[sinij]

The end goals of these bans is to force all-electric cars, then force everyone on public transit because owning an electric car is at this point harder than internal combustion one.

It snows heavily for 4+ months of the year where I live. Yet, municipality is converting roads and parking spaces into bike lanes, that are unused and unusable a portion of the year due to snow. To me, this is politically driven insanity.

Re:Forcing electric cars

[edtice1559]

The first part of this is probably true and +1 Insightful. The res should be -1 Flamebait! Even without government intervention, the ICE is pretty much dead for private transportation. It's just a question of how much longer it can hold out. As vehicle-to-vehicle communication improves and autonomous driving takes hold, public transit as we know it may become outdated. Will be cheaper to give the poor a self-driving taxi voucher. I have no idea why so many people are emotionally attached to ICEs. I can't wait until I can switch to a BEV. The only reason I haven't is that we are currently in temporary (rental) housing where it would be a PITA to charge. Of course if my office would install chargers it would be a no brainer.