Electric Car In an effort to make good on a pledge to cut its carbon output anywhere from 80 percent to 95 percent by 2050, Germany is mandating that new cars registered there will have to be emissions-free by the year 2030. Deputy Economy Minster Rainer Baake said that the country has not seen any reductions in its CO2 output from transportation since 1990. Baake also said that while Germany can’t do anything about truck emissions at the present, it can take steps to mitigate CO2 emissions from cars. Germany’s Environment Ministry has declared that the transportation system must cut approximately 10 million metric tons of CO2 over the next five years, and that vehicle emissions account for approximately one-fifth of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions. Last year Germany’s emissions totaled about 165 million tons. Germany has committed to lowering emissions by 40 percent by the year 2020. The […]