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Germany鈥檚 cities have warned for over a year that the car industry is headed for a front crash since first court hearings in the context of emissions limit violations by diesel cars had started, Jasper van Altenbockum writes in an op-ed for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淓ither there would be a moratorium for limit values, a retrofitting of vehicles by the industry or driving bans, which nobody wants,鈥� he says. But as NOx limit values were a political decision, 鈥渢he combustion engine would rather disappear before the limitocracy is put into question,鈥� van Altenbockum argues. So the choice for carmakers remained between retrofitting and bans, he writes, adding that a trend towards e-cars begins to show that might deprive the companies of their choices altogether.

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See the 威力彩玩法 timeline of Germany鈥檚 diesel emissions scandal for background.

Germany鈥檚 political system lately displays a questionable tendency towards prescribing the economy what to do by means of mandatory quotas, whether it is about the share of women in the management of companies or about the share of electric cars on the road, Ferdinand Knau脽 writes in a commentary for WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥淐ritics from business and science who used to say that a quota curtails entrepreneurial freedom and the freedom of contract (鈥�) have fallen silent,鈥� Knau脽 argues. But Chancellor Angela Merkel had already become used to directing the economy with the energy transition, he says. 鈥淨uotas for the labour market or the product range of companies, however, no longer have anything in common with the ideas of the social market economy鈥檚 founding fathers, which were centred on individual freedom,鈥� Knau脽 says.

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German transmission grid operators say fears about an overstraining of the grid due to an increased use of e-cars and heat pumps are unfounded, Dow Jones Newswires Germany reports. Utility associations in southern Germany recently warned that the nuclear phase-out in 2022 and the presumed rise in electric mobility might lead to power blackouts. But Lex Hartmann, CEO of grid operator Tennet, says this is an unlikely scenario: 鈥淲e talk about years before there are millions of e-cars on Germany鈥檚 roads. Until then, the most important grid expansion projects will be finished.鈥� Transmission grid operator TransnetBW says the companies already took a substantial rise in power demand by e-cars into account when planning their current grid expansion, but added that smaller distribution grids might in fact encounter challenges once e-cars become commonplace.

See the 威力彩玩法 dossier The energy transition and Germany鈥檚 power grid for background.