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jacquesm
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Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, cour...
A big part of the problem here is the the EU was focusing on CO2 rather than NOx and that diesels are actually really good in the CO2 department.
fyfy18
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Fun fact: NOx emmisions actually help to counter global warming, as they break down methane particles, which is one of the worst greenhouse gases.
IntronExon
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Very true, but that’s partly because they believe NOx emissions were lower than they really were, thanks to cheating. I like to think that if they’d realized the magnitude of the non-CO2 issues, they would have taken a different path.
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