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Report: Germany to Push Hardware Updates for Diesels
Germany hopes to avert diesel bans in some cities by pressuring carmakers to retrofit older diesel vehicles with hardware updates that cut emissions, according to Der Spiegel.
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Germany hopes to avert diesel bans in some cities by pressuring carmakers to retrofit older diesel vehicles with hardware updates that cut emissions, according to Der Spiegel.
The weekly news magazine says the country’s transport ministry and environmental experts have agreed to the position. Neither the ministry nor German carmakers have commented on the report.
The new effort would be a significantly costlier addition to a campaign begun in August by BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen. That recall is installing software updates to lower the output of nitrogen oxides, a group of gases linked to respiratory ailments, from 5.3 million older diesels in Europe.
Carmakers claim the software updates can reduce NOx emissions by as much as 30%. But environmental groups have been lobbying for a more aggressive solution.
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