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Volkswagen Chairman To Seek Re-Election At Shareholder Meeting
Poetsch, 70, became chairman of the supervisory board in 2015, weeks after the start of the diesel emissions scandal - in which Volkswagen in 2015 acknowledged using illegal software to rig diesel engine tests in the United States.
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German Authorities Search Continental, Volkswagen As Part Of Diesel Probe
German prosecutors have extended their diesel emissions probe to include auto supplier Continental for its role in supplying engine components, searching the company's offices and those of automaker Volkswagen, the companies said on Wednesday. Prosecutors in Hanover, Germany conducted the searches as part of an investigation into how a 1.6-litre di...
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Volkswagen Loses Landmark German Emission Case As Car Owners Stand To Receive Damages
A German federal court judge ruled that Volkswagen has to pay compensation to motorists who purchased vehicles with manipulated diesel engines, a major blow for the carmaker in its home market as it continues to reel from the emissions scandal.
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German Court Ends Diesel Case Against Volkswagen CEO, Chairman
A German court said on Wednesday it was ending proceedings against the chairman and chief executive of Volkswagen AG after the carmaker agreed to pay a fine of 9 million euros ($9.9 million) over the diesel emissions scandal.
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Volkswagen Starts Settlement Talks With German Consumer Groups Over Diesel Scandal
Volkswagen on Thursday said it was in talks to discuss a settlement with German vehicle owners who are suing the carmaker over excessive pollution caused by VW's diesel cars. In 2015 the carmaker admitted to using manipulated engine management software to mask excessive pollution levels in its diesel cars, sparking a raft of prosecutions and lawsui...
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Germany's Car Watchdog Sets Ultimatum For Audi To Remove Illegal Diesel Software: Report
Germany's motor vehicle authority (KBA) has told Volkswagen's premium brand Audi that it faces penalties for its failure to remove illegal software from diesel cars that can manipulate emissions levels, the Bild am Sonntag (BamS) newspaper reported. BamS added that the KBA had told Audi in three letters that it had until September 26 to remove the ...
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Volkswagen Could Face Recall Of More Cars Over Emissions In Germany
Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) is considering recalling more Volkswagen cars due to its emissions, scandal, the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday. The KBA has opened an investigation into whether a software update for 1.2-litre engine cars, including the popular Polo, enabled them to cheat emissions tests, the newspape...
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BMW Searched By German Police In Emissions Scandal
About 100 police and law enforcement officials searched the luxury carmaker's Munich headquarters and a site in Austria, prosecutors said, adding they had opened an investigation last month against unknown persons for suspected fraud. Legal sources said the facility searched in Austria was BMW's engine plant in Steyr, where the company employs abou...
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Volkswagen Under Fire For Diesel Tests On Monkeys, Humans
The world's biggest carmaker Volkswagen faced fresh scrutiny Monday over reports it helped finance experiments that saw monkeys and humans breathe car exhaust fumes
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Audi Recalls 5,000 Diesel Cars To Fix Emissions Control Software
Volkswagen was found in 2015 to have illegally manipulated engine software so that vehicles would meet nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions standards in laboratory testing but not in real-world conditions, where they could emit up to 40 times the permitted levels.
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U.S. Regulators Approve Fix For 38,000 Volkswagen 3.0-Litre Diesel SUVs
Last month, VW said it was taking another $3 billion charge to fix diesel engines in the United States, lifting the total bill for its emissions-test cheating scandal to around $30 billion.
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VW Engineer Sentenced To 40-Month Prison Term In Diesel Case
Liang was part of a long-term conspiracy that perpetrated a -stunning fraud on the American consumer.
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Daimler Manipulated Emissions In One Million Cars: Report
German automobile manufacturer Daimler is reported to manipulate the engines of around 1 million cars employing a similar cheat device used in Volkswagen cars. The affected cars include Mercedes-Benz C-Class, E-Class and R-Class.
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Munich, Home To BMW, Considers Diesel Ban To Tackle Pollution
The scandal over rigged diesel emissions tests at German carmaker Volkswagen has thrown the engine technology into doubt and has highlighted carmakers' struggle to comply with ever stricter rules capping nitrogen oxides emissions.
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Audi Pledges Full Dieselgate Transparency - CEO
Investors have called on Audi and Volkswagen to come clean about the emissions fraud since the emissions cheating scandal broke in 2015. In fact, some say they are shocked the findings of an internal inquiry have still not been released.
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Volkswagen Chairman To Seek Re-Election At Shareholder Meeting
Poetsch, 70, became chairman of the supervisory board in 2015, weeks after the start of the diesel emissions scandal - in which Volkswagen in 2015 acknowledged using illegal software to rig diesel engine tests in the United States.
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German Authorities Search Continental, Volkswagen As Part Of Diesel Probe
German prosecutors have extended their diesel emissions probe to include auto supplier Continental for its role in supplying engine components, searching the company's offices and those of automaker Volkswagen, the companies said on Wednesday. Prosecutors in Hanover, Germany conducted the searches as part of an investigation into how a 1.6-litre di...
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Volkswagen Loses Landmark German Emission Case As Car Owners Stand To Receive Damages
A German federal court judge ruled that Volkswagen has to pay compensation to motorists who purchased vehicles with manipulated diesel engines, a major blow for the carmaker in its home market as it continues to reel from the emissions scandal.
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German Court Ends Diesel Case Against Volkswagen CEO, Chairman
A German court said on Wednesday it was ending proceedings against the chairman and chief executive of Volkswagen AG after the carmaker agreed to pay a fine of 9 million euros ($9.9 million) over the diesel emissions scandal.
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Volkswagen Starts Settlement Talks With German Consumer Groups Over Diesel Scandal
Volkswagen on Thursday said it was in talks to discuss a settlement with German vehicle owners who are suing the carmaker over excessive pollution caused by VW's diesel cars. In 2015 the carmaker admitted to using manipulated engine management software to mask excessive pollution levels in its diesel cars, sparking a raft of prosecutions and lawsui...
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Germany's Car Watchdog Sets Ultimatum For Audi To Remove Illegal Diesel Software: Report
Germany's motor vehicle authority (KBA) has told Volkswagen's premium brand Audi that it faces penalties for its failure to remove illegal software from diesel cars that can manipulate emissions levels, the Bild am Sonntag (BamS) newspaper reported. BamS added that the KBA had told Audi in three letters that it had until September 26 to remove the ...
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Volkswagen Could Face Recall Of More Cars Over Emissions In Germany
Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) is considering recalling more Volkswagen cars due to its emissions, scandal, the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday. The KBA has opened an investigation into whether a software update for 1.2-litre engine cars, including the popular Polo, enabled them to cheat emissions tests, the newspape...
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BMW Searched By German Police In Emissions Scandal
About 100 police and law enforcement officials searched the luxury carmaker's Munich headquarters and a site in Austria, prosecutors said, adding they had opened an investigation last month against unknown persons for suspected fraud. Legal sources said the facility searched in Austria was BMW's engine plant in Steyr, where the company employs abou...
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Volkswagen Under Fire For Diesel Tests On Monkeys, Humans
The world's biggest carmaker Volkswagen faced fresh scrutiny Monday over reports it helped finance experiments that saw monkeys and humans breathe car exhaust fumes
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Audi Recalls 5,000 Diesel Cars To Fix Emissions Control Software
Volkswagen was found in 2015 to have illegally manipulated engine software so that vehicles would meet nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions standards in laboratory testing but not in real-world conditions, where they could emit up to 40 times the permitted levels.
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U.S. Regulators Approve Fix For 38,000 Volkswagen 3.0-Litre Diesel SUVs
Last month, VW said it was taking another $3 billion charge to fix diesel engines in the United States, lifting the total bill for its emissions-test cheating scandal to around $30 billion.
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VW Engineer Sentenced To 40-Month Prison Term In Diesel Case
Liang was part of a long-term conspiracy that perpetrated a -stunning fraud on the American consumer.
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Daimler Manipulated Emissions In One Million Cars: Report
German automobile manufacturer Daimler is reported to manipulate the engines of around 1 million cars employing a similar cheat device used in Volkswagen cars. The affected cars include Mercedes-Benz C-Class, E-Class and R-Class.
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Munich, Home To BMW, Considers Diesel Ban To Tackle Pollution
The scandal over rigged diesel emissions tests at German carmaker Volkswagen has thrown the engine technology into doubt and has highlighted carmakers' struggle to comply with ever stricter rules capping nitrogen oxides emissions.
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Audi Pledges Full Dieselgate Transparency - CEO
Investors have called on Audi and Volkswagen to come clean about the emissions fraud since the emissions cheating scandal broke in 2015. In fact, some say they are shocked the findings of an internal inquiry have still not been released.
