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News Wire: Germany mulls free transit to fight pollution

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NOx is a city problem. About 40 cities definitely exceeded the EU limit for NOx. Approximately 30 more are bordering the limit. Transit could help with taking individual diesel cars from the roads. But it wouldn't be enough and not fast enough. As said above the EU threatens with legal action. On the other hand many wouldn't change over to transit as it might take an hour to work instead of 20 minutes by car. 50 per cent of th NOx is caused by diesel cars not diesel trucks. The trucks are a lot cleaner than the cars. Our Federal Administrative Court is expected to publish a ruling if concerned cities are allowed to ban diesel cars other than EURO 6 from the city. Among the EURO 5 cars are many with fraud software. The software was update but that lessens NOx by just 20% per car, not enough to solve the problems. An unsaintly alliance between politicians and automobile industry prevented a hardware retrofit (SCR) at the cost of the industry which caused the problems. The industry told it would be impossibe and too expensive to add a SCR catalyst. The German Automobile Club (ADAC) and aftermarket manufacturers showed that it is possible and costs about $1700 per car. I think the retrofitting with SCR is the only viable way. It too isn't fast but it is effective. I think the EU would postpone the legal action realizing that there are promising efforts now after 9 years. Diesel cars are promoted and subsidized in Germany as producing less greenhouse gases. Diesel cars make up approx. 30% of all cars and 40% of the yearly sales (2017) down from 50% because of the diesel scandal. Regards, Volker
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