Mobility and exhaust gases
Where Germany’s cleanest and dirty cars drive
In some counties, every third car with the outdated exhaust gas standards is on the road with EUR 1 to Euro 4 – in others it is only one tenth. However, the model students have an unfair advantage.
How clean the cars are on German roads depends strongly where these streets are. Depending on the registration district, the span of the cars with a relatively outdated exhaust technology ranges from one third to a tenth, as an evaluation of data from the Federal Motor Transport Authority shows by the dpa news agency. And there are also big differences in the cleanest cars.
According to the KBA, the highest proportion of vehicles that are approved according to the old and less strict exhaust gas standards in Euro 4 is in Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lower Saxony. There they make 33.7 percent. This is followed by Elbe-Elster and Duisburg City with 31.7 and 30.7 percent. Emmendingen, Nienburg, Gelsenkirchen Stadt, Spree Neiße, Herne Stadt and Görlitz also have values over 30 percent.
Car cities have an advantage
At the other end of the scale, Wolfsburg is located with a value of 10.9 percent, followed by Wiesbaden with 15.4 percent, Suhl (15.9) and Munich district (16.1) and city (17.8). At least Wolfsburg and Munich have an unfair advantage in comparison as seats of large car manufacturers, since large quantities of relatively new self -registration and company cars are permitted there, which shift the conditions towards clean cars.
And sometimes these cars do not all drive in the district in which they are approved. At Wolfsburg as a VW home, this is particularly visible: there are 973 cars statistically on 1,000 residents – more than one car per adult.
Accordingly, the car cities are at the front of the particularly clean cars. If you take the proportion of pure electric cars and vehicles with the relatively new EXPLASS standard Euro 6, Wolfsburg is at the top with 77.2 percent, followed by Wiesbaden with 70.6 percent, which has a strikingly high proportion of company cars.
Munich city and country are 64.8 and 64 percent in places three and four and in front of the Main-Taunus district as well as the seats of Audi and Mercedes, Ingolstadt and Stuttgart, which are in the low sixties. In some cases, income also plays a role: more new and accordingly cleaner cars are bought in rich areas.
dpa
Source: Stern
