- "Diesel Dupe"
- the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
-
Defeat device
- Details sketchy
- Computer software
- Detect test scenarios
- Safety mode
- Diesel engines
- Improve results
- Admitted to cheating
- Emissions tests
- Facts
- 482,000 cars US
- VW-manufactured Audi A3
- Jetta, Beetle, Golf & Passat
3L Porsche and Audi
- 11 Million cars worldwide
- 8 Million cars EU
- Volkswagen
- Found irregularities
36,000 cars a year
- Carbon dioxide levels
40x over US limit
- Michael Horn
US Boss
-
Martin Winterkorn
Group's Chief Executive
- Replacement: Matthias Mueller (Porsche)
- Further departures likely
- Screwed up,
broken trust
- €6.7 bn to cover costs
€2.5 bn loss (October)
- $37,500 fine/car
Max $18 bn
- UK, Italy, France, South K.,
Canada, Germany
- Recall 8.5 M cars EU
2.4 M Germany
1.2 M UK
500,000 US
- Carmakers' shares falling
- California Air Resources board
- Ford, BMW & Renault-Nissan
not involved
- EU test methods outdated
- Stop Diesel
- By Russell Hotten for BBC News
Dec. 10, 2015
Retrieved Dec. 18, 2015:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772