After finding the US Environmental Protection Agency, some diesel cars from VW and Audi spare only the environment if they have realized that just one test is carried out.
In a public report, the US Environmental Protection Agency accused the Volkswagen Group, more precisely, the Volkswagen AG, Audi AG and the Volkswagen Group of America, diesel cars of model years 2009 to 2015 with a to have software features that tricking the tests on US environmental regulations. For similar findings and the California Air Resources Board CARB) has come. Both authorities have sent corresponding complaints to VW, and according to EPA Statement VW has acknowledged that the accusations are true.
Thus, operates in no less than 480,000 vehicles sold in the United States of models VW Golf, Passat, Jetta , Beetle and Audi A3 software that detects when the car is currently undergoing an official exhaust test and only ensures optimum environmental protection. In everyday life, to the coming so not triggered “Clean Mode” on the other hand to carry and the vehicle slightly better performance, but the environment up to 40 times as high bestow nitrogen oxide emissions as spezifiziert.Im US Clean Air Act are those precautions classified as “defeat devices” and strictly prohibited.
Contrary to media expectations otherwise the EPA has issued no demands to recall the affected vehicles. The owners of these cars must therefore currently do anything to rectify the defect and the vehicles used legally on. Very good but the Authority has noted that VW could be prosecuted for the infringements with fines. This could be after the legal amount to up to 37,500 US dollars per individual case, in Summa ie to around 18 billion dollars. (HPS)
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