ban on combustion engine puts 6k jobs at risk
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Ban on combustion engine puts 6k jobs at risk

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a Porsche 911 sportcar during tests at the German luxury car maker's factory site in Stuttgart
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More than 600,000 jobs could be at risk in Germany from a potential ban on combustion engine cars by 2030, the Ifo economic institute said in a study commissioned by Germany’s VDA car industry lobby.
Pollution from cars, including those with diesel engines, has become a sensitive subject in Germany since Volkswagen admitted to systematic cheating of emissions tests to mask levels of health threatening nitrogen oxides.
Cities such as Munich and Stuttgart are looking at banning older diesel cars, whose emissions they blame for causing an increase in respiratory diseases.
The Ifo study, published on Tuesday, said a switch to sales of zero-emission cars would threaten 426,000 car-manufacturing jobs, with the rest coming from related industries, such as suppliers.
Two months before Germany’s national elections, the government faces growing pressure to reduce emissions or face complete bans on diesel cars in some cities. Representatives of federal and regional governments will meet with carmakers on Aug. 2 to find ways to curb diesel-related pollution.
The VDA, representing carmakers such as Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW, has already been talking to the government on steps to curb pollution from diesel cars that the industry hopes will avert driving bans which have already hit sales of diesel models.
“Industry groups are deliberately pushing the worst-case scenario to safeguard their vested interests,” NordLB analyst Frank Schwope said.
For every 2-3 jobs that will be lost from phasing out combustion engines, one new position will be created in research and development (R&D), IT and other sectors related to zero-emission technology, Schwope said, dismissing Ifo’s findings as incomprehensible.
Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks told Tuesday’s edition of German business daily Handelsblatt: “The auto industry has the responsibility that it will not come to this (driving bans).” She said the industry had to retrofit the affected cars as quickly as possible and must do so at its own cost.
Ifo President Clemens Fuest dismissed criticism that Germany’s car industry has been slow to embrace new technologies as it has focused on defending the combustion engine that has driven its prosperity.

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