A driver in a station wagon with white hand-painted letters collided into a gate outside German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office on Wednesday morning, but did not get past the barrier …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said German government’s coronavirus relief package contained a lot of help for the automobile industry of the country after her conservative CSU allies renewed a proposal for incentives for petrol …
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Volkswagen, Daimler urge Germany to boost car demand as profits declines
by SpeedLuxby SpeedLuxVolkswagen and Daimler on Wednesday prompted the German government to help increase demand for cars as the coronavirus pandemic damaged first-quarter profits and forced both automakers to drop their forecasts …
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German auto lobby calls on Angela Merkel to allow car sales to resume
by SpeedLuxby SpeedLuxGermany’s automotive lobby group and the nation’s largest union called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to permit auto sales in the country to restart as soon as possible. High inventory that can’t be …
The heads of Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler held a crisis call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday to talk about how to get production restarted, Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper reported. …
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Germany looks forward to 1 million electric car charging points by 2030
by SpeedLuxby SpeedLuxGermany should have one million electric car charging stations by 2030, Chancellor Angela Merkel stated in a video message on Sunday, ahead of meetings with the car industry regarding the …
Volkswagen on Thursday stated it will offer trade-in incentives and a bonus for scrapping older diesel automobiles in Germany, in a move to stave off driving restrictions in polluted cities. …
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German government is committed to tougher sanctions for diesel emissions
by SpeedLuxby SpeedLuxThe German government is committed to implementing tougher sanctions against companies that involved in criminal behavior, following Volkswagen‘s diesel emissions scandal, the nation’s justice minister, Katarina Barley, said. In an …
Ministers from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives attacked on Thursday a proposal by the Social Democrats to charge automakers who fail to provide diesel hardware retrofits, opening a new battle front …
The German government presented strategies to curb pollution from diesel vehicles by asking automakers to offer owners trade-in incentives and hardware fixes, urging objections from environmental groups and grudging concessions …

