At Volkswagen subsidiary Audi 2.1 million vehicles are affected by the exhaust gas scandal worldwide. That said, an Audi spokesman on Monday in Ingolstadt. In Germany, therefore, nearly 577,000 cars of the company are equipped with the engine, in which the software is installed for the manipulation of exhaust gases. In North America, the number of affected cars was below 13,000, the spokesman said. In China there are no vehicles with the engine in question. The majority of the affected diesel cars come from Western Europe.
The engine in question was installed in the versions with 1.6 and 2.0 liters of displacement as a turbodiesel in the types A1, A3, A4 and A6, the TT sports car and the SUV Q3 and Q5.
They concern only to diesel engines that meet the emission standard EU. 5 Current engines that already comply with the applicable standard EU 6 were not affected as with the other Volkswagen brands. The engine, the internal designation EA contributes VW 189, was used in a number of the Group’s brands, as well as at Skoda.
Volkswagen had admitted to having tampered with emission levels in the United States with a prohibited software. Worldwide should be equipped with this software up to eleven million vehicles of the group.
On Wednesday Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn had resigned. He had therefore the political responsibility for the scandal assumed which has battered the reputation of the world’s largest carmaker. As his successor, the Supervisory Board appointed the former Porsche CEO Matthias Müller. It is designed to promote education and to regain lost trust for Volkswagen.
VW leave three other board members
Meanwhile, according to the consolidated districts and three other board members have been on leave. The heads of development of the brands Audi, VW passenger cars and Porsche, Ulrich Hackenberg, Heinz-Jakob Neusser and Wolfgang Hatz have been relieved of their duties, said several insider told Reuters on Monday. The manager thus took over the technical responsibility for the exhaust affair. Several media, including FAZ.NET, had already last week reported on the imminent departure of the manager.
© dpa VW development chief Ulrich Hackenberg defends itself against his suspension.
VW development chief Ulrich Hackenberg defends itself against his suspension.
A According to insider himself Hackenberg, however, defends against his suspension. The manager was changed along with Winterkorn from Audi to Wolfsburg of 2007. He is considered the inventor of the modular system, which Volkswagen is currently introducing an increasing number of brands. Later Hackenberg returned to Ingolstadt, come up with new electric cars to help Audi on the jumps. Neither Audi nor VW and Porsche
wanted to comment on the Estimation of the three heads of development.
EU Commission is planning meetings with national regulatory authorities
The affair will also employ this week for the first time an EU Council of Ministers. The topic was set on Thursday on the agenda of EU competition ministers, it said on Monday from circles of the Luxembourg EU Presidency. The aim was “an open exchange on the recent events in the automotive industry”. There go “to an initial assessment of the consequences of the affair,” said an EU diplomat. Decisions are not planned.
The European Commission could give at the meeting to assess what measures in the workup may be needed, it said. A Commission spokeswoman said on request, there would be “a broad discussion” expected. They simultaneously announced that the Commission “for the first half of October” had used a meeting with the national regulatory authorities. She explained “to the status of the investigation” to the affair at the national level. An exact date will had yet been set.
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The scandal also leads to beginning of the week to further losses of VW shares. The preferred shares of Volkswagen slipped in the morning again by 5.45 per cent to around 101 Euro and fell in the meantime even below the 100 euro mark. Before high cooking of the scandal, the paper had been standing at 162 euros.
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