The Greens had failed with the demand for a speed limit recently. Now, apparently, the SPD wants to try a new attempt. In a preliminary draft for a motion at the SPD party conference held by the news agency DPA, the speed limit is mentioned as an issue to be discussed with the Union.
"We want to introduce a speed limit of 130 km / h on motorways - that contributes to road safety and is also a free climate protection measure," says the paper. According to the DPA, the draft is to be part of the leading motion that party leaders Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans intend to make at the upcoming SPD party conference on 6 December. An SPD spokesman wanted to comment on the concrete content of the paper on demand of SPIEGEL. It is therefore unclear whether the proposal will be included in the final application.
According to the DPA, the proposal also proposes to introduce a "significant penalty component" for motor vehicle taxation in order to strengthen electromobility - in other words a significantly higher tax burden on vehicles that put a strain on the climate. A reform of motor vehicle tax by climate standards is already part of the climate package of the Grand Coalition, but details are not yet available.
SPD wants to further develop climate package
There is also talk in the draft of a quota for electric cars, which should "gradually increase in the coming years". What the quota refers exactly or how it should be designed, is not in the paper.
In the dispute over the climate package of the grand coalition, the SPD is considering further demands on the Union. Current measures need to be "developed further", the preliminary draft bill says. A higher entry into the CO2 price could also be addressed.
The coalition had already discussed a speed limit in the course of the climate protection consultations, but the Union rejected this. However, Minister of the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) emphasized even then that the topic was not yet off the table.