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Friday, November 20, 2015
In exhaust gas scandal at Volkswagen even more cars come to the attention of the US overseer. When sold in the US car a suspicious software to have been installed. Affected are vehicles with three-liter engines -. Also of Porsche
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From the affair manipulated exhaust emissions at Volkswagen are probably even more vehicles affected than previously known. The US Environmental Protection Agency announced that representatives from VW and Audi had declared at a meeting on Thursday that cars with three-liter diesel engines model years were fitted from 2009 to 2016 with a non-approved software function for emissions control. So far in this case only because of dubious results in emission tests for vehicles of model years were from 2014 to 2016 found.
The EPA Volkswagen had early November accused the offending software in three-liter diesel engines of the models VW Touareg , Porsche Cayenne and an alleged violation of several Audi models against the US law on air pollution. The VW group rejected this. According to media reports there Volkswagen had but apparently failed to specify a permissible system for exhaust gas regulation properly with the US authorities.
Read more aboutThe software, however, is another, as already as a cheat program (“Defeat Device”) convicted, has admitted the manipulative use in emission tests in September. The second suspicious software “Auxiliary Emission Control Device” (aecD) called and also relates to VW’s premium brand Porsche. Whether this is a cheating program, must first show.
VW had given in September to have been embraced across up to eleven million vehicles with smaller diesel engines a cheating software which in tests at a lower emissions resulted than on the street. All wagons concerned must be converted, also threatens to VW in the US is a sensitive penalty. This coming on the consolidated billion cost.
Source: n-tv.de
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