1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    for home and online learning support. In 2023, Unicef ​​reached 1,3 million children with formal and informal learning. * Lobby | Propaganda | Transport policy | Car industry "Promotion of cars is generally questionable" With the still massive support for combustion engines, Germany is heading towards the end economically, warns Helmut Holzapfel. The traffic researcher about small...

  2. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    really only accepted by outsiders among transport scientists, but they are influential because Transport Minister Volker Wissing gets advice from them. Even in the automotive industry we know that the increasing electrification and automation of vehicles will in the foreseeable future mean traffic flow will become more consistent and that the capacity of...

  3. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    clearly missed. In the building sector, the Heating Act at least attempts to prevent the gap from widening any further. There is little ambition in the transport sector... * China | Auto industry | E-car Electric cars: missed the future? Chinese manufacturers are expanding the global passenger car market. The German auto industry is falling behind in the world's largest domestic market. What is...

  4. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    We have often reported here on Telepolis in the last few months without taking the environment and fishing into account. Or about the diesel fraud scandal and the German auto industry's unwillingness to let its engineers work on future-oriented innovations instead of cheating software. The continued overexploitation of brown coal, which fell victim to wind turbines in the Rhineland at the end of August...

  5. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    drive with e-fuel, i.e. synthetically produced gasoline, which can continue to be registered in the EU from 2035. This should satisfy the German transport minister and provide relief for the German auto industry * Uranium ammunition | Uranium dust | Iraq War: British supplies Ukraine with ammunition made from radioactive material: How dangerous are uranium bullets? Together with the...

  6. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Even other European liberals say: Such obscene siding with fossil capital is considered bad form even there. The FDP drama was linked to a campaign by the German auto industry to promote eFuels - supposedly ecologically produced fuels that, in the eyes of the auto industry, are essential for climate-neutral passenger transport. In reality it's...

  7. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    2035 do not agree in its current form. Now aviation also has a demand. Aviation is pushing for preferential treatment compared to the automotive industry when it comes to using climate-friendly fuel. Any initiative to increase the production of synthetic fuel is to be welcomed, said the Federal Association of the German Aerospace Industry (BDLI) on Thursday... * FDP...

  8. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    So help me God.” An economics minister who has driven an entire future industry into ruin and out of the country. Transport ministers who have been particularly diligent in lobbying for the car industry, but have otherwise only distinguished themselves by ducking and stalling. Whitewashers and greenwashers who, in the protection of their office, did not do what had to be done, but...

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