I am ashamed, that my government (the German one) has effectively helped to cover things up for decades now in the EU and they are still doing it.<p>They are still blocking realistic pollution regulations for cars in the EU and they help car manufacturers to come away with their manipulations in the EU without real sanctions.<p>In the US, buyers of such cars get a compensation. In Germany, they will never get a penny.<p>But what is worse, people get sick and die (+) because of air pollution in the EU and everybody knows it and they just ignore it or downplay the problem.<p>(+) the numbers of pollution related illnesses is on the rise and medical studies verify the fact that it is a problem.<p>In many cities now, we have regularly pollution values high above thresholds, but also here, the government and local authorities block effective countermeasures.<p>It is so bad, that (a newer study found out) cars which should be better in pollution because of EU regulations (so called EU5) are sometimes even worse than their predecessors (EU4), because the EU willingly puts a blind eye on real pollution values.<p>And it is all, because the German government wants to protect German car producers.<p>I hope, E-Mobility will kill German car manufacturers. And I know, that it will be bad for my Home-country, but they (the manufacturers) deserve it, since they did not care about real clean cars for so long.