The Sweden’s capital upcoming low-emission zone will only permit use of electric cars and gas cars that meet the Euro 6 emission standards. Euro 6 plug-in hybrid heavy vehicles will also be permitted. The zone is in effect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Violating the rules of the zone is a traffic offence which can result in a police fine of SEK 1,000, i.e. roughly €85.

Air pollution in the city of Stockholm has been a long-standing problem. Medical research shows that children living near Stockholm streets with high emissions have reduced lung function from as early as six months of age.

    • luxuslurch@feddit.deEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      “Stockholm’s upcoming low-emission zone will only permit use of electric cars and gas cars that meet the Euro 6 emission standards. Euro 6 plug-in hybrid heavy vehicles will also be permitted.”

  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Be like goku and go even further beyond, ban all personal, non-emergency cars from the city center.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    The photo is misleading; it is of a pedestrianised square in the Old Town, an area of medieval cobbled streets where cars are restricted to a few roads around the perimeter. The low emission zone will not be in the Old Town but in Norrmalm, to the north of it and across the water.

    • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Well it pairs with the misleading headline saying “petrol & diesel cars banned” and then the first sentence of the article says Euro6 ICE are allowed.

      I don’t think this media is a very reliable source

  • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Does Sweden have separate rules for “historic vehicles”? I’m asking because in Germany all cars registered as such are allowed to enter these restricted zones regardless of their emission standard.

    • WhaleScenery@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Same in the UK. I can’t drive through Oxford’s zero emission zone in my wife’s Euro 6 VW Golf without a fine, but I can in my 1967 carburetted Beetle…

    • MMNT@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Not by much unfortunately. Car tires and brakes release very dangerous particles that are even smaller than PM2.5, but considering that the majority of cars are petrol cars, the pool of vehicles should be smaller.

      • BlinkerFluid@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean, maybe, if they aren’t already hurting financially. Maybe per the concepts of capitalism, they don’t deserve to operate if they can’t afford to.