The California Air Resources Board said it received VW’s plan on Tuesday to bring the engines into compliance.
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US and California regulators said in November that the 3.0-liter diesels contained three emissions control software devices that weren’t disclosed as required by law.
SACRAMENTO, California- A plan to fix Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles with 3.0-liter diesel engines that skirt US pollution rules with illegal emissions software was submitted on Tuesday to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Environmental Protection Agency. Laura Allen, a spokesperson for the EPA, has let on that the agency will be reviewing the plan.
Volkswagen plans to update the engines of over 3 lakh vehicles that it recalled in India after a government-ordered probe found the German auto major using diesel engines equipped with a defeat device which help cheat emission tests.
The EPA and the California Air Resources Board announced September 18 that they were investigating Volkswagen after the carmaker admitted to rigging the emissions systems of diesel vehicles so they would pass pollution tests.
“After meetings between EPA/CARB and our technicians, we filed a recall plan within the time limit laid out in the regulations”.
The problem affects 85,000 cars with 3.0-liter diesel engines sold nationwide between 2009 and 2015, including some Porsche SUVs and Audis that are sold under the Volkswagen Group umbrella.
CARB last month rejected VW’s proposal to remedy thousands of 2.0-liter diesel vehicles with illegal software created to mask emissions levels in lab tests, calling it “substantially deficient” and listing 14 ways in which VW’s 2.0-liter plan fell short.
This engine is used mostly in Audi vehicles (A6, A7, A8, Q5, and Q7).
In reference to the plan submitted by VW, Mark Clothier – spokesman for Audi of America – said in a Tuesday statement: “We are fully cooperating with the U”. VW and Porsche also halted sales of the diesel Touareg and Cayenne models.
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Audi said it hopes ARB will make a decision on whether to approve the plan in the “near future”. In a month when other automakers did better than analysts had anticipated, VW fell short of TrueCar Inc’s estimate for a 9.8 per cent decline. VW says excess diesel emissions impact up to 11 million vehicles worldwide.
