2019: Hardware-Retrofit is ready and available for BMW since 2008

AdBlue & SCR Katalyst are available since 2008.

Hardware-Retrofit is easy, ready and available since 2008,
but somehow, contrary to the USA,
BMW & Co. haven't been forced to actually implement it.

https://youtu.be/UXN9Wsg8-Qo

Ban in Stuttgart for fraudulent Diesel-Cars / Legal Situation

"In order to protect human health and the environment, the Council of the European Union drew up a directive with air quality standards in April 1999. With the Ordinance on Air Quality Standards and Emission Ceilings (39. BImSchV), the Federal Government transposed this EU directive into national legislation. The directive establishes limit values for pollutant concentration in order to maintain the air quality.
Accordingly, the limit value for particulate matter was set at 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air, which may be exceeded on a maximum of 35 days a year. The average annual value for nitrogen dioxide was set at 40µg/m3. The EU directive obliges cities and municipalities to draw up action plans for air pollution control. These plans have formed the basis for the implementation of 44 low-emission zones with limited access for vehicles with high emissions so far."

https://www.right-to-clean-air.eu/en/lawsuits-and-decisions/germany/

Diesel-Fahrverbote in Stuttgart ab 2018: Deutsche Umwelthilfe begrüßt Zustimmung des Landes Baden-Württemberg zur Sprungrevision

"Jürgen Resch, Bundesgeschäftsführer der DUH kommentiert das Ergebnis: „So sehr wir für die vom Dieselabgasgift Stickstoffdioxid geschädigten Stuttgarter Bürger auf ein Anerkenntnis des Urteils und damit Diesel-Fahrverbote ab dem 1.1.2018 gehofft haben, können wir auch mit der Zustimmung der Landesregierung zur Sprungrevision leben. Es kann aber nicht sein, dass den von Dieselabgasgiften betroffenen zehntausenden Menschen im Stuttgarter Kessel ein weiterer giftiger Diesel-Winter zugemutet wird. Wir fordern Ministerpräsident Winfried Kretschmann und Oberbürgermeister Fritz Kuhn gleichzeitig dazu auf, als Ausgleich für den Verzicht auf die Anerkenntnis des Urteils bereits zu Beginn des Winterhalbjahres mit Sofortmaßnahmen die NO2-Belastung zu reduzieren. Dazu gehört neben einer Adhoc-Nachrüstung aller ÖPNV-Busse und Landes-/Kommunalfahrzeuge auf Euro 6 ein Einfahrtverbot für alle Diesel mit temperaturge­steuerter Abschaltung der ordnungsgemäßen Abgasreinigung bei unter + 10 Grad Celsius."https://www.right-to-clean-air.eu/presse/pressemitteilungen/details/diesel-fahrverbote-in-stuttgart-ab-2018-deutsche-umwelthilfe-begruesst-zustimmung-des-landes-baden-wue/

Diesel Ban coming to German Cities, Oxford Introduces Zero Emission Zone, Right To Clean Air Campaign

1) Transport & Environment latest Tweet: "Stuttgart court decision on banning diesel cars from city centres has been postponed. Yet new #diesel car sales in Western Europe fall to 16-year low as consumers turn their back on polluting cars."

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/966700544403394560

2) Oxford city council and Oxfordshire county council have announced plans to introduce what has been described as the world’s first “Zero Emission Zone” in Oxford city centre.

https://www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20216/air_quality_management/1227/oxford_zero_emission_zone_zez

https://www.airqualitynews.com/2017/12/11/strong-support-oxford-zero-emission-zone/

https://www.airqualitynews.com/2017/10/12/oxford-unveils-plans-zero-emission-zone/

2) Deutsche Umwelthilfe and the Right To Clean Air Campaign

http://www.duh.de/projekte/right-to-clean-air/

http://www.duh.de/projekte/dieselabgas-betrug/haeufige-fragen-zu-unserer-arbeit/

Diesel Ban coming to Stuttgart and Munich, London

"As much as I would welcome avoiding such bans, I think it is just as unlikely that we can continue to do without bans in the future," Munich mayor Dieter Reiter was quoted as saying by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper on Wednesday.

"However, the city of Stuttgart, home of Mercedes-Benz and VW's Porsche subsidiary, is already preparing to ban some diesel vehicles from next year which do not meet the latest emission standards."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-autos-diesel-idUSKBN1950VD



“It’s when, not if, diesel cars are banned from London,” says Dan Powell, managing editor of motoring website HonestJohn. “The particulate filters that clean up the exhausts need to be driven for at least 15 miles to work properly. How many inner-city drivers do that?”
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/mar/04/diesel-environment-ban-tax-duty-emissions-values

London Leads the EU in Car Pollution; Diesel Fuel Blamed

"London has a dirty secret: Levels of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO2), as measured by a monitoring station in the central city, are the highest in Europe. Concentrations of the compound are greater even than in Beijing, where smog alerts are common.


The European Union’s fight against climate change has favored diesel over gasoline, because diesel engines burn fuel more efficiently and emit less carbon dioxide (CO2), the leading cause of global warming. But a byproduct of burning diesel is NO2. “Successive governments knew more than 10 years ago that diesel was producing all these harmful pollutants, but they myopically plowed on with their anti-CO2 agenda,” says Simon Birkett, founder of Clean Air in London, a nonprofit. “It’s been a catastrophe for air pollution, and that’s not too strong a word.”


The World Health Organization says NO2 is linked to asthma and can inflame respiratory passages and aggravate bronchitis in children. In addition to NO2, diesel combustion also generates easily inhaled fine particulate matter, which probably killed 3,389 people in London in 2010, the government agency Public Health England said in April. Because the fine particles and NO2 commingle, it’s hard to distinguish deaths caused only by NO2, says Jeremy Langrish, a clinical lecturer in cardiology at the University of Edinburgh. But researchers think NO2has harmful effects independent of particulate matter, says Frank Kelly, a professor of environmental health at King’s College London. (---)


http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-05/london-leads-eu-in-car-pollution-diesel-fuel-blamed

and http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-27/london-s-dirty-secret-pollutes-like-beijing-airpocalyse.html 


Switch to diesel engines is significantly to blame for poor air quality in UK cities, experts sayhttp://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3033

PS. and here is the article: 

Critical evaluation of the European diesel car boom – a global comparison, environmental effects and various national strategies. by Michel Cames and Eckhard Helmers.
Results: "Expected greenhouse gas savings initiated by the shift to diesel cars have been overestimated" and
"We conclude that the European diesel car boom did not cool down the atmosphere."
"Moreover, toxic NOx emissions of diesel cars have been undestimated up to 20-fold in officially announced date."
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186%2F2190-4715-25-15#page-1

PS II. and here Clean Air in London (CAL) calls out Mayor Boris Johnson for his bad track record
Stop hiding air pollution and ban diesel exhaust in two stages to 2020 as coal was banned 60 years ago  CAL regrets that the Mayor’s track record on similar schemes has been very poor. For example: i. delaying Phase 3 of Mayor Livingstone’s low emission zone from October 2010 to January 2012; ii. scrapping the western extension of the congestion charging zone despite adverse air pollution impacts expected; iii. 100% discount for diesel vehicles entering the CCCZ i.e. Greener Vehicle Discount that was recently scrapped because of the problems it created;- See more at: http://cleanairinlondon.org/hot-topics/stop-hiding-air-pollution-and-ban-diesel-exhaust-in-two-stages-to-2020-as-coal-was-banned-60-years-ago/#sthash.W8bg1erq.dpuf

India’s Diesel Subsidy Spurs Pollution Worse Than Beijing

“I have no doubt, 100 percent, that diesel exhaust is contributing to a rise in asthma, respiratory illnesses and hospitalizations,” said Dr. T.K. Joshi, director of the Centre for Occupational & Environmental Health in Delhi at Maulana Azad Medical College.(...)


Lethal Particles

Carmakers from Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz to Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. to General Motors Co. have all introduced new diesel models since 2010.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-27/india-s-diesel-subsidy-spurs-pollution-worse-than-beijing.html

An estimated 60 percent of French vehicles currently run on diesel.

"No politician now wants to be associated with Paris's new diesel buses and Anne Hidalgo, current mayoral frontrunner, has vowed to eliminate diesel entirely from the area of Paris under her jurisdiction. This crisis could well be the beginning of the end of France's love affair with diesel."

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2014/03/air-quality-woes-may-finally-force-paris-rethink-its-love-diesel-fuel/8649/


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Anne Hidalgo: "Mon plan contre le diesel à Paris"

"D'ici à trois ans, nous aurons réussi l'éradication du diesel dans la flotte de la Ville. Il reste 30 % de véhicules municipaux qui roulent au gasoil. Il faut que d'ici à deux ans, il n'y ait plus de bus de la RATP au diesel à Paris. J'interdirai les cars de tourisme au diesel dans la capitale..."

http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2013/04/26/anne-hidalgo-mon-plan-contre-le-diesel-a-paris_3167066_823448.html

À Paris, le plan de la mairie pour lutter contre la pollution

"...Mme Hidalgo demande que la future métropole du Grand Paris, dont la création est programmée pour le 1er janvier 2016, adopte « dès les premiers mois de son existence » « un plan d'amélioration de la qualité de l'air assorti d'objectifs et d'actions précises ».
http://www.lemonde.fr/paris/article/2014/05/15/paris-la-feuille-de-route-antipollution-d-anne-hidalgo_4418756_1779311.html

"Nous voulons vous parler de l’amélioration de la qualité de l’air dans Paris. Ce n’est pas possible ces niveaux de pollution ces dernières semaines, toujours supérieurs au 65% et des fois au 80%."

http://www.leroicoquelicot.com/carte-ouverte-des-plantesde-paris-a-anne-hidalgo/?lang=fr

Diesel Ban in the Headlines

2010
Let’s Ban Diesel Vehicles In And Around The Himalayan Region
Indian Minister of Environment & Forest Mr. Jairam Ramesh has understandably opposed the developed countries’ attempt to include the “black carbon” issue in the main framework of the climate negotiations.
http://rajabasu.blogspot.com/2010/12/lets-ban-diesel-vehicles-in-and-around.html

2009
Ban on Petrol and Diesel Cars?
Norway’s Finance Minster, Kristin Halvorsen, has proposed to ban petrol cars by 2015 in order to lower CO2 emissions and encourage car manufacturers to begin making more environmentally friendly models.
http://www.green-blog.org/2009/05/23/ban-on-petrol-and-diesel-cars/

Norway’s Finance Minster, Kristin Halvorsen has proposed the move which if implemented, will see a ban on all petrol and diesel car sales in Norway from 2015, allowing only electric, biofuel, hydrogen or hybrid cars to be sold on the forecourts.
http://www.cbg.ie/newcars/articles.aspx?articleid=770

2008
Centre rejects Delhi government's proposal to ban diesel cars
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/node/4320

2007
Delhi HC may ban diesel cars
Diesel cars have got into the cross hairs of the Delhi high court. It feels that they defeat the intent of the 2001 Supreme Court order to shift public transport to use compressed natural gas. The car industry is upset.

Jagdish Khattar, MD, Maruti Udyog said, “We have to see why diesel is so popular. It’s because of the price difference. We need to correct that.”

The biggest player in diesel car market, Tata Motors is in the midst of a Rs 12,000 crore capacity expansion and product development plan. 70% of Hyundai Verna's sales are diesel and about 70% of Ford Fiesta's. Ford has recently launched a diesel variant of Fusion and General Motors has also launched a diesel version of Optra.

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/delhi-hc-may-ban-diesel-cars_299912.html