Stuttgart is one of 90 cities in Germany facing excess pollution.
Stuttgart, Germany, to ban some diesel cars from city center
Mercedes-Benz and Porsche's hometown joins list of cities banning heavy polluters
February 22, 2017
Joining a growing trend, the government of Stuttgart, Germany, has said that it will ban diesel cars that don't meet Euro 6 emission standards starting next year, according to Reuters. The city, home to Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, will only prohibit those vehicles on days with heavy pollution.
At the start of 2016, only about 10 percent of diesel vehicles in Germany met the Euro 6 standards. This ban seems like a direct response to the EU's lawsuit against Germany for Stuttgart and 89 other towns in the country not complying with the allotted particulate threshold and the lawsuit from Deutsche Umwelthilfe, the German environmental organization, for not doing enough to curb pollution. Vehicles used for the transportation of goods could receive exceptions to the ban.
Last month, Paris introduced a sticker system to curb air pollution, effectively banning all diesel-powered vehicles built from January 1997 to December 2000.