Following the revelations, Audi (LSE: 0FG8.L – news) is now investigating whether employees in technical development and other departments deliberately manipulated emission-control devices and has suspended two engineers, chief executive Rupert Stadler told the Donaukurier regional newspaper.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board said last week the software was on about 85,000 Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles with 3-litre, six-cylinder engines going back to the 2009 model year.
The EPA said in a statement Friday night that VW had turned in its proposed fix, but the agency wouldn’t give details.
The measures, which are meant to correct the emissions issues plaguing the 1.6 and 2.0-litre engines, were approved by the federal authority.
Volkswagen Korea also said it will provide compensation plans for owners.
Volkswagen has presented its solutions to diesel engines affected by the Carbon dioxide emissions scandal to the Federal Motor Transport Authority in Germany ahead of a planned recall in January. The software could detect laboratory testing environments and lower emissions levels to acceptable limits.
Volkswagen Group has announced a fix for the EA 189 diesel engines affected by the emissions scandal.
“Volkswagen is finding its financial footing more quickly than expected”, Dudenhoffer said in an email. The 1.6 and 2.0 engines were treated as a more immediate priority as there are so many more of them on the road. Specifically, this is the software for the temperature conditioning of the exhaust-gas cleaning system.
At a hearing in Sydney, Justice Lindsay Foster was reported as saying the decision exposed VW to serious cost orders, and the company had to participate in a sensible way.
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Seoul made a decision to conduct its own tests on VW vehicles after the German giant admitted in September that it haf installed software in up to 11-million diesel vehicles worldwide that vastly understated their actual emissions of smog-causing nitrogen oxides. VW faces an ongoing criminal investigation in the United States and could face fines of up to $21 billion for violating the Clean Air Act.
