Volkswagen Pollution Cheating Scandal

Two Indian subsidiaries of German carmaker Volkswagen group have been charged for allegedly selling seven Audi cars fitted with "cheat devices" that are able to deceive excessive pollution emission tests to a Noida businessman, police said on Friday.

Volkswagen AG took two raps in Australia on Friday as a federal court upheld a fine on the German car maker as part of a global diesel emissions cheating scandal and a regulator started penalty proceedings against one of its financial units.

The National Green Tribunal today directed Volkswagen to deposit an interim amount of Rs 100 crore with the CPCB in a case related to allegations against the German carmaker for using 'cheat device' in emission tests of its diesel vehicles. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel also formed a committee comprising officials of t...

General Motors Co. was sued for allegedly putting defeat devices in trucks to beat emissions tests, making it the fifth carmaker to be accused of diesel cheating since Volkswagen AG admitted in 2015 to flouting pollution rules.

In 2015, Volkswagen admitted to installing software that allowed its cars to emit up to 40 times of the permitted pollution levels. In March 2017, it plead guilty to fraud, obstruction of justice, and falsifying statements as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the US Justice Department.

The settlement deal covered luxury VW, Audi and Porsche vehicles with 3.0-litre engines, meaning Volkswagen has now agreed to spend as much as $17.5 billion in the US to resolve claims from owners as well as federal and state regulators over polluting diesel vehicles.

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday approved Volkswagen AG's record-setting $14.7 billion settlement with regulators and owners of 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles, and the German automaker said it would begin buying back the vehicles in mid-November.

Matthias Mueller found out about Volkswagen's emissions cheating software on September 18, 2015, when US regulators revealed the German carmaker had faked pollution tests, newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported.

German authorities investigating the Volkswagen pollution cheating scandal have opened a probe into a Volkswagon employee suspected of having destroyed evidence of the fraud, AFP learnt on Thursday.

Volkswagen said on Monday it was postponing a recall of tens of thousands of vehicles to remove a device designed to cheat pollution tests, after failing to obtain regulatory approval for the repair.

Volkswagen faces potentially huge damages to pay over pollution cheat devices on its diesel-engine cars in a class-action lawsuit filed in a San Francisco court this week.

German authorities on Wednesday gave the green light to a plan by scandal-hit Volkswagen to recall thousands of vehicles fitted with devices designed to cheat pollution tests.

The Swedish investigation will examine diesel models imported to Sweden between 2009 and 2015 - models which were equipped with software that minimised emissions during pollution tests, but allowed vehicles to spew out far more nitrogen oxide while on road.

German auto giant Volkswagen, still reeling from its massive pollution cheating scandal, will begin recalling some 940,000 vehicles in France in February, VW Group France President Jacques Rivoal said today.

Embattled German carmaker Volkswagen said today the global pollution-cheating scandal it has been engulfed in since September was the result not of a one-off error, but a series of mistakes dating back to 2005.

Two Indian subsidiaries of German carmaker Volkswagen group have been charged for allegedly selling seven Audi cars fitted with "cheat devices" that are able to deceive excessive pollution emission tests to a Noida businessman, police said on Friday.

Volkswagen AG took two raps in Australia on Friday as a federal court upheld a fine on the German car maker as part of a global diesel emissions cheating scandal and a regulator started penalty proceedings against one of its financial units.

The National Green Tribunal today directed Volkswagen to deposit an interim amount of Rs 100 crore with the CPCB in a case related to allegations against the German carmaker for using 'cheat device' in emission tests of its diesel vehicles. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel also formed a committee comprising officials of t...

General Motors Co. was sued for allegedly putting defeat devices in trucks to beat emissions tests, making it the fifth carmaker to be accused of diesel cheating since Volkswagen AG admitted in 2015 to flouting pollution rules.

In 2015, Volkswagen admitted to installing software that allowed its cars to emit up to 40 times of the permitted pollution levels. In March 2017, it plead guilty to fraud, obstruction of justice, and falsifying statements as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the US Justice Department.

The settlement deal covered luxury VW, Audi and Porsche vehicles with 3.0-litre engines, meaning Volkswagen has now agreed to spend as much as $17.5 billion in the US to resolve claims from owners as well as federal and state regulators over polluting diesel vehicles.

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday approved Volkswagen AG's record-setting $14.7 billion settlement with regulators and owners of 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles, and the German automaker said it would begin buying back the vehicles in mid-November.

Matthias Mueller found out about Volkswagen's emissions cheating software on September 18, 2015, when US regulators revealed the German carmaker had faked pollution tests, newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported.

German authorities investigating the Volkswagen pollution cheating scandal have opened a probe into a Volkswagon employee suspected of having destroyed evidence of the fraud, AFP learnt on Thursday.

Volkswagen said on Monday it was postponing a recall of tens of thousands of vehicles to remove a device designed to cheat pollution tests, after failing to obtain regulatory approval for the repair.

Volkswagen faces potentially huge damages to pay over pollution cheat devices on its diesel-engine cars in a class-action lawsuit filed in a San Francisco court this week.

German authorities on Wednesday gave the green light to a plan by scandal-hit Volkswagen to recall thousands of vehicles fitted with devices designed to cheat pollution tests.

The Swedish investigation will examine diesel models imported to Sweden between 2009 and 2015 - models which were equipped with software that minimised emissions during pollution tests, but allowed vehicles to spew out far more nitrogen oxide while on road.

German auto giant Volkswagen, still reeling from its massive pollution cheating scandal, will begin recalling some 940,000 vehicles in France in February, VW Group France President Jacques Rivoal said today.

Embattled German carmaker Volkswagen said today the global pollution-cheating scandal it has been engulfed in since September was the result not of a one-off error, but a series of mistakes dating back to 2005.