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_ The four horsemen of the Diesel Apocalypse are saddling up. The signs are everywhere: Studies show that diesel emissions are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year; Automakers and suppliers the world over are being sued for not complying with clean-air laws; and, Many countries are planning to outlaw diesels (as well as gas-powered vehicles) within the next 20 or 30 years, […]
Enlarge (credit: Michiel Dijcks) On Tuesday evening, Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler released a statement saying that it would voluntarily recall three million Mercedes-Benz diesels in the EU to offer a software update that would improve emissions control system performance. The recall will cost the company about €220 million ($ 254 million). Mercedes-Benz was already in the […]
– Throwing money at problems is how corporations make them go away. Pay for more lawyers, pay for more public relations, and certainly pay for more marketing in the hopes that the world will believe your new promises. For Volkswagen, those invoices have recently been supersized, befitting the scope of the diesel cheating scandal that […]
The Wall Street Journal today reported on an upcoming report from West Virginia University’s Center for Alternative Fuels Engines and Emissions, which is the same lab that investigated Volkswagen emissions cheating. The report, which will be released in a matter of weeks, alleges that 2014 and 2015 model year Jeep and Ram vehicles with diesel […]
– The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit alleging that FCA used a “defeat device” to circumvent emission controls in about 104,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ram 1500 diesel models from the 2014 through 2016 model years. It follows news from late last week that the automaker is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
Enlarge (credit: youkaine) On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that they approved a new fix (PDF) for 84,390 diesel vehicles that were caught up in the Volkswagen Group scandal that broke in 2015. The fix applies to automatic 2.0L Passats from 2012-2014 (manual Passats do not have an approved […]
WASHINGTON – German automaker Daimler AG said on Tuesday it had dropped plans to seek U.S. approval to sell 2017 Mercedes-Benz US diesel models, but had not decided whether to exit the American passenger diesel market. “We constantly review our portfolio offerings and make adjustments to meet immediate customer need,” Mercedes-Benz USA spokesman Rob Moran […]
– “Diesel” is a dirty word at the Volkswagen Group, where the company’s emissions-cheating scandal has caused its TDI engines to be banished from its U.S. lineup—and cost the company billions in penalties. But while the Volkswagen brand is sticking with management’s decision to keep diesel out of the U.S. market (as it pursues a […]
Volkswagen AG said on Friday the company has bought back or repaired more than half of 475,000 polluting 2.0-liter diesel vehicles under a US government settlement, just six months after it launched the largest-ever automotive repurchase offer. The world’s largest automaker said in a letter to a US judge overseeing the settlement that as of […]
– The buying opportunity of a lifetime is here, thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of California: You can now buy a brand-new two-year-old Volkswagen or Audi TDI at what should be a cut-rate price. – Volkswagen received approval today to sell new 2015 TDI models with the 2.0-liter diesel four-cylinder, or […]
