That is in stark contrast to the massive and expensive recall that Volkswagen has to do for 500,000 vehicles using its 2.0-liter diesel engine.
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The German automaker has been negotiating with the authorities on details of a plan to deal with 482,000 diesel vehicles sold in the USA that used deceptive software to duck emissions requirements for the 2-liter engine. The company is still developing a fix for 1.2-liter, 3-cylinder engines and will propose that adjustment later this month. Now Volkswagen’s luxury marque is submitting its solution to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) to get these affected engines in line.
It added: “The three brands Audi, Porsche and Volkswagen are affected”.
Volkswagen believes that the remedial measures needed to fix about 8.5 million Volkswagen cars in Europe which are fitted with illegal emissions-control software are technically and financially manageable. Assuming it’s approved, the fix should cost in the mid-double-digit millions of euros, Volkswagen said.
This NOV said VW had developed and installed defeat devices in certain VW, Audi and Porsche cars equipped with 3.0 liter engines for model years 2014 through 2016. One is said to relate to temperature conditioning of the exhaust-gas cleaning system, while the others involve avoidance of deposits on the AdBlue metering valve and injection of unburnt hydrocarbons into the selective catalytic reduction system.
VOLKSWAGEN has posted a video today highlighting how the German company will fix its 1.6-litre and 2.0-litre diesel engines that were caught up in the emissions scandal. “The company has committed to continue cooperating transparently and fully”, Audi said in a prepared statement.
According to Digital Trends, the vehicles are U.S.-spec cars with 3.0-liter TDI V6 engine, which are typically under the hoods of Audi models like the A6, A7, A8, Q5, and Q7.
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On Monday (November 23), Volkswagen admitted that more Audi models are involved in the scandal than first thought. A fix for North American markets is still coming, and the automaker has not discussed publicly how that solution will pan out.
