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Enlarge / Volkswagen AG Turbocharged Direct Injection (TDI) vehicles sit parked in a storage lot at San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) at dusk in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Volkswagen agreed last year to buy back about 500,000 diesels that it rigged to pass US emissions tests if it can’t figure out […]
Even though the United States has already penalized and fined the crap out of Volkswagen for selling vehicles equipped with emissions-cheating defeat devices, the company remains in hot water. Earlier this month, Germany imposed a fine of $ 1.2 billion over the “dieselgate” scandal. “Volkswagen accepted the fine and it will not lodge an appeal […]
Audi CEO Rupert Stadler was arrested today, a week after his home was raided by German prosecutors. He has reportedly been detained for his alleged role in Dieselgate, a scandal unearthed in 2015 that revealed Volkswagen, Audi’s parent company, had installed software in its vehicles that allowed them to cheat emissions tests. The “defeat device” […]
Volkswagen’s former CEO Martin Winterkorn has been formally charged with conspiracy and wire fraud in US federal court over the corporation’s diesel emissions-cheating scandal. It’s part of a probe into the company’s efforts in the so-called Dieselgate fiasco that revealed the German automaker had installed software that faked favorable results on vehicle emissions tests. Winterkorn […]
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer German auto giant Volkswagen AG warned on Friday that it will take a surprise one-time charge of about 2.5 billion euros ($ 3 billion) against its third-quarter earnings, as its efforts to buy back or repair diesel-powered vehicles in North America have proven more costly than it had expected. Wall Street analysts polled […]
MUNICH, Germany —Prosecutors have arrested a former Porsche board member in connection with an emissions scandal at carmaker Audi, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Wolfgang Hatz, former chief of research and development at Porsche and head of powertrain development at Audi and parent Volkswagen in previous roles, was taken into custody, […]
Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs,Audi,Volkswagen,Emissions,Diesel It seems there was a difference of opinions on how to handle the situation. Continue reading Head of dieselgate clean up set to leave Volkswagen after a year on the job Head of dieselgate clean up set to leave Volkswagen after a year on the job originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, […]
