As Europe Sours on Diesel, Germany Fights to Save It
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/...any-diesel-car-emissions.html?ref=todayspaper
BERLIN Britain and France want to end the sale of diesel cars. Madrid and Athens are banning them entirely. Automakers like Volvo are switching to electric engines.
In Germany, those developments have created something akin to a national emergency, threatening an industry that employs hundreds of thousands of people.
As others have increased investment in electric cars and pushed tougher rules threatening diesel, though, German auto executives and political leaders meeting in Berlin on Wednesday appeared determined to rescue the technology.