Diesel Ban Looms Over German Home of Porsche and Mercedes-Benz
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German carmakers, fighting for diesel’s future, faced a setback after a Stuttgart court ruled in favor of banning the technology in the home city of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche.
Diesel driving bans are the only adequate solution to quickly clean up the air, said Judge Wolfgang Kern of Stuttgart’s administrative court, ruling on a case brought by an environmental group over the city’s failure to comply with emissions levels for smog-inducing nitrogen oxide. Kern’s decision is likely to influence other judicial cases coming in Germany on the matter.