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German economy minister used ‘fake news’ in car ban argument: experienced
Professor says Brigitte Zypries’ claim that ‘hardly any’ cars are produced in the UK is simply wrong.
8/Two/17, Two:30 PM CET
Updated 8/Two/17, Two:35 PM CET
BERLIN — Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries used incorrect information to argue against a future ban on petrol and diesel cars in Germany, one of the country’s most renowned automobile experts said.
“Either she doesn’t know better — or she is aware that [she used] wrong facts to consciously influence politics,” Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, a professor of automotive economics and the director of the Center Automotive Research (CAR) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, said.
In a newspaper interview last weekend, Zypries, a Social Democrat, claimed that it was “neither practical nor effective” for Germany to go after the example of the United Kingdom and France, which both recently announced plans to ban sales of gasoline and diesel-fueled cars by 2040.
“While in England hardly any cars are being built anymore, Germany is one of the greatest automobile manufacturing nations in the world,” she said, adding that more than a million jobs depended on the sector.
“That’s fake news,” Dudenhöffer told POLITICO this week, referring to the minister’s claim about car manufacturing in the U.K. In fact, Britain produced more than 1.7 million cars last year — equivalent to almost a third of Germany’s output, Dudenhöffer said. He provided data showcasing that the number of vehicles produced in the U.K. actually rose over the last four years — from around 1.51 million cars in two thousand thirteen to 1.72 million in 2016.
In response to a request for comment on Zyperies’ assertion, a spokeswoman for her ministry noted that around Five.7 million vehicles were produced in Germany. “This puts Germany very first in EU terms and clearly ahead of Good Britain,” the spokeswoman said.
The ministry did not provide data to back up Zypries’ assertion that “hardly any cars” are produced in the U.K.
Zypries is among those participating on Wednesday in a so-called “diesel summit” in Berlin, bringing together government ministers, regional state premiers and CEOs from major car companies to come up with a way of reducing harmful emissions of nitrogen oxide and other pollutants from diesel cars.
The meeting, which takes place less than two months before Germany’s parliamentary election, was called back in June but has been overshadowed by reports in latest weeks that major carmakers Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW, Audi and Porsche colluded in technical working groups going back decades to thwart competition.
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Those Five+ mil cars include the ones made in Polan, Turkey, Morocco and so on? Because almost none of the german cars sold in eastern europe are MADE in germany and the ones for the us are made in Brasil and other south american countries.
Posted on 8/Two/17 | Three:23 PM CEST
YellowSubmarine
There needs to be a enormous trust rebuilding exercise carried out by German vehicle makers, the remarks by Zypries is just more evidence of the wilfully Ill informed German Government and why the industry has been permitted to arrive at it’s current situation.
If I were in charge of UK, US trade I would gravely look at banning German made cars until the total extent of their rule violating and other illegal activities was fully understood.
I would only look at removing the ban after serious fresh measures were put in place to stop it happening again.
Those who receive large numbers of German cars, and are affected the most, like the UK, could even insist on setting up there own oversight assets to assure decent control was in place within German business.
I will have to think up a name for that, maybe the BCJ. 😉
Posted on 8/Two/17 | Five:25 PM CEST
Stamcose
The situation is in reality the following:
The limiting values for permitted emissions are rather arbitrary values that just correspond to what the different environment agencies imagine to be technically feasible! At this time these values have been set unrealistically low, that is the real problem! That these unrealistic fantacies about all vehicles being run on batteries are taken earnestly by politicains is the real problem and shows agin with how little wisdom the world is ruled!
Posted on 8/Two/17 | 7:49 PM CEST
Stamcose
And by the way, lose statements from some french and brittish politicians at this time will not interest anybody in a few years. Fortunately!
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German Economy and Energy Minister Brigitte Zypries used incorrect information to argue against a future ban on petrol and diesel cars in Germany, according to one of the country’s automotive experts | Adam Berry/Getty Pics
German economy minister used ‘fake news’ in car ban argument: experienced
Professor says Brigitte Zypries’ claim that ‘hardly any’ cars are produced in the UK is simply wrong.
8/Two/17, Two:30 PM CET
Updated 8/Two/17, Two:35 PM CET
BERLIN — Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries used incorrect information to argue against a future ban on petrol and diesel cars in Germany, one of the country’s most renowned automobile experts said.
“Either she doesn’t know better — or she is aware that [she used] wrong facts to consciously influence politics,” Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, a professor of automotive economics and the director of the Center Automotive Research (CAR) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, said.
In a newspaper interview last weekend, Zypries, a Social Democrat, claimed that it was “neither practical nor effective” for Germany to go after the example of the United Kingdom and France, which both recently announced plans to ban sales of gasoline and diesel-fueled cars by 2040.
“While in England hardly any cars are being built anymore, Germany is one of the greatest automobile manufacturing nations in the world,” she said, adding that more than a million jobs depended on the sector.
“That’s fake news,” Dudenhöffer told POLITICO this week, referring to the minister’s claim about car manufacturing in the U.K. In fact, Britain produced more than 1.7 million cars last year — equivalent to almost a third of Germany’s output, Dudenhöffer said. He provided data showcasing that the number of vehicles produced in the U.K. actually rose over the last four years — from around 1.51 million cars in two thousand thirteen to 1.72 million in 2016.
In response to a request for comment on Zyperies’ assertion, a spokeswoman for her ministry noted that around Five.7 million vehicles were produced in Germany. “This puts Germany very first in EU terms and clearly ahead of Superb Britain,” the spokeswoman said.
The ministry did not provide data to back up Zypries’ assertion that “hardly any cars” are produced in the U.K.
Zypries is among those participating on Wednesday in a so-called “diesel summit” in Berlin, bringing together government ministers, regional state premiers and CEOs from major car companies to come up with a way of reducing harmful emissions of nitrogen oxide and other pollutants from diesel cars.
The meeting, which takes place less than two months before Germany’s parliamentary election, was called back in June but has been overshadowed by reports in latest weeks that major carmakers Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW, Audi and Porsche colluded in technical working groups going back decades to thwart competition.
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Those Five+ mil cars include the ones made in Polan, Turkey, Morocco and so on? Because almost none of the german cars sold in eastern europe are MADE in germany and the ones for the us are made in Brasil and other south american countries.
Posted on 8/Two/17 | Trio:23 PM CEST
YellowSubmarine
There needs to be a hefty trust rebuilding exercise carried out by German vehicle makers, the remarks by Zypries is just more evidence of the wilfully Ill informed German Government and why the industry has been permitted to arrive at it’s current situation.
If I were in charge of UK, US trade I would gravely look at banning German made cars until the utter extent of their rule violating and other illegal activities was fully understood.
I would only look at removing the ban after serious fresh measures were put in place to stop it happening again.
Those who receive large numbers of German cars, and are affected the most, like the UK, could even insist on setting up there own oversight figure to assure decent control was in place within German business.
I will have to think up a name for that, maybe the BCJ. 😉
Posted on 8/Two/17 | Five:25 PM CEST
Stamcose
The situation is in reality the following:
The limiting values for permitted emissions are rather arbitrary values that just correspond to what the different environment agencies imagine to be technically feasible! At this time these values have been set unrealistically low, that is the real problem! That these unrealistic fantacies about all vehicles being run on batteries are taken gravely by politicains is the real problem and shows agin with how little wisdom the world is ruled!
Posted on 8/Two/17 | 7:49 PM CEST
Stamcose
And by the way, lose statements from some french and brittish politicians at this time will not interest anybody in a few years. Fortunately!