German court rejects bid to ban Mercedes and BMW's fossil-fuel cars
Germany’s highest court dismisses environmentalists’ attempts to block Mercedes-Benz and BMW from selling combustion-engine cars after 2030, citing lack of individual carbon budgets.
March 23, 2026
Reuters
FILE PHOTO: A logo of BMW is seen inside a car dealer in Nijmegen, Netherlands February 26, 2025.
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Environmentalists suffered a setback on Monday when Germany's top appeals court threw out their cases seeking to ban Mercedes-Benz MBGn.DE and BMW BMWG.DE from selling new combustion-engine cars from November 2030.
The federal court of justice in Karlsruhe upheld lower court rulings against the lawsuits, brought by three managing directors from the DUH environmental lobby
The DUH had based its case on a "carbon budget" calculated for each of the two automakers
But the court ruled that no such budget had been allocated to individual companies
-Reporting by Ursula Knapp and Rachel More, editing by Thomas Seythal/Reuters
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