The controversial letters sent by the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) at the end of 2018 to 1.5 million Diesel-powered vehicle holder to the purchase of a new car to recommend, have cost the taxpayers 600,000 euros. This is clear from the response of the Federal government to a small request of the Greens group in the Bundestag, which is the service “daily mirror Background mobility & Transport”.
The KBA had the holder of Euro-4 or Euro-5 diesel cars in particularly strong in nitrogen oxide emissions in polluted towns and cities contacted and advised you to buy a new car from a German manufacturer, or to lease, in order to improve the air quality.
hardware retrofit was not mentioned
the possibility of Hardware retrofits, the KBA said. The Federal government justifies this by the fact that the technical requirements would still not pre-that the Ministry of transport on 28. December had set in. The KBA-action for delivery up to 9. January.
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Hardware retrofits are part of the so-called diesel concept of the Federal government. “This promotional post was a violation of European law and unacceptable for a public authority which is obliged to be neutral,” said Greens transport policy-makers Stephan Kühn “daily mirror Background”. The KBA had made to the “distribution partner of the German car manufacturers”. Transport Minister, Andreas Scheuer (CSU) carrying the political responsibility for the action.
