It is being disclosed that the software for the temperature conditioning of the exhaust-gas cleaning system is regarded as a defeat device according to US law.
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The authorities had given the German automaker a deadline for November 20 to come up with a solution for the 482,000 affected diesel cars in the USA, and now EPA has 20 business days to respond.
The Federal Motor Transport Authority has approved measures to fix Volkswagen cars that used software to cheat emissions tests, including popular Volkswagen Golf and Volkswagen Passat models.
Mueller, who was appointed in the wake of the scandal, said he plans to present an interim report on the status of the investigation in mid-December as the final results will still take several months.
Volkswagen detailed its preliminary plans to fix the emissions of both its 1.6- and 2.0-liter diesel models in Europe, in a press release issued Wednesday morning.
The Volkswagen cars are safe to drive while customers wait for a recall.
Audi suggests the EPA and CARB have raised questions over three different software systems that were not properly declared.
Clearly, VW are going to have another mess to clear up in the United States with the 3.0 litre diesel engines, but it’s unacceptable – if it proves to be the case – that they will escape any kind of sanction in Europe because the regulations are so flawed that the actual emissions of NOx are not subject to limits.
The company has submitted updated emissions control software to the EPA that will prevent the vehicles from altering the vehicle’s performance when it detects it is being tested.
There is worrying news for people in Europe that have an affected VW due to the diesel scandal.
VW Australia announced on October 9 that it would recall more than 77,000 Volkswagen and Skoda cars fitted with the EA189 engines despite not having a solution to the problem at the time. It also powers the Porsche Cayenne and Volkswagen’s Touareg off-roader. This month, however, even the 3.0-liter engine that Audi develops has been found to be equally culpable. He didn’t comment on what affect the fixes may have on the vehicles’ acceleration and fuel economy. Volkswagen said it will revise and resubmit software in the engines for regulatory approval, a process it said would cost in the mid-double-digit millions of euros.
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A workable, affordable plan for fixing the cars would be a big step forward for VW, which has so far not seemed to make any progress in getting ahead of the scandal.
