“NOx standards are in place to ensure public health is protected”, the EPA said.
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And no longer will the EPA rely on vehicles exclusively provided by manufacturers.
That same report also indicates Winterkorn and other members of the management board are eligible to receive up to as much as two years of worth severance, which in his case would be worth another 30 million Euros.
He added that at no point were the safety of customers in danger but that the company now has even stricter compliance. But when they were on the road, the cars pumped out almost 40 times the legal level of nitrogen oxide. “It’s a question of where we deploy those resources”, Grundler told reporters Friday.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that the software on Volkswagen diesel cars showed false emission data.
Half the auto sales of the company in Europe are for diesel cars, their biggest market and there could be a costly recall of cars for refits on the cards.
Grundler said the agency had not focused on testing the pollution performance of passenger diesel cars in the past because they account for barely 0.2 per cent of all vehicles on the road in the United States. The German vehicle maker has kicked off this current resurgence in the EPA’s activities, and it’s possible that other manufacturers are going to find their cars aren’t performing as specified. That testing could be extended to gasoline-powered cars, as well.
“Mueller, 62, would represent part of the fresh start that Winterkorn said was needed when he stepped down”.
California air regulators had a hand in uncovering Volkswagen’s fraud.
In a conference call with journalists, the EPA said it will keep its new testing regimen confidential. VW also faces billions in fines.
The chairman of the Commons Transport Committee, Louise Ellman, said Mr Baker’s claims raised serious questions over the effectiveness and the independence of the whole testing regime.
But since Dieselgate, the European Union is working on a new series of testing to insure that there is no discrepancy between testing results and real world driving results. If the EPA had not been there to catch VW lying, who would have?
The firm confesses the code, which often turns engines to a automatic pool vacuum type during genuine checking, has been bespoke in 11 mil of its motor vehicles the world over.
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“I don’t think it’s fair to say that this would never have been uncovered”, he says.
