The scandal manipulated to emission levels in diesel engines from Volkswagen and Audi Martin Winterkorn has cost the job. VW CEO Matthias Müller has now worked up the causes. The company has not only lost trust, it also threatens heavy fines.
- Volkswagen calls Europe back 8.5 million diesel vehicles , of which 2.4 million in Germany.
- German, American and French judicial investigating Volkswagen.
- The Group confessed to having manipulated data in the world eleven million vehicles. Also 2.1 million Audi models are affected.
- Volkswagen threatens a penalty of US Environmental Protection Agency in the amount of up to 18 billion dollars.
- Even deviating CO 2 values at 800,000 vehicles
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VW drivers beware! So the cheating engines to be converted
The technical upgrading of diesel engines with manipulation software is somewhat simpler than initially feared but for VW. For the two larger drives, the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) has now approved the proposals from Wolfsburg. An overview of plans for products sold in the EU car:
- EA 189 / 2.0 liter (approximately 5.2 million Units Affected ): only software update needed. . Estimated man-hours per engine about 30 minutes
- EA 189 / 1.6 liter (about 3 million affected units): Software update and hardware intervention necessary, the latter but less extensive than previously thought – it is sufficient to install a flow transformer (grid) in front of the air mass meter. . Estimated man-hours per engine less than an hour
- EA 189 / 1.2 liters (about 300,000 affected units): Proposals not ready yet, be the KBA still presented this week , Probably enough as the 2.0-liter engine from a software update.
The conversion plans for the affected in the US 2.0 liter drives are currently being considered by the American environmental authorities.
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VW must call back
05.55 clock in South Korea more than 125,000 cars: VW has in South Korea call for alleged manipulated exhaust emissions more than 125,000 cars in the garages. According to its own emission tests on several models of the VW and Audi brands since last month, the Ministry of Environment in Seoul occupied the German carmaker also fined 14.1 billion won (11.6 million euros). The tests had shown that VW emission levels have fined for vehicles with diesel engines, the Authority said on Thursday.
Volkswagen Korea must therefore submit to January 6 recall a concrete plan for 125,522 diesel vehicles. Affected are cars with EA-189 engines that were sold mainly 2008-2015, including the popular in South Korea Tiguan.
After the announcement of the exhaust gas scandal at VW South Korea had also conducted special investigations at the VW models Jetta, Golf and Beetle and the Audi A3. Volkswagen had admitted to having tampered with the aid of software exhaust test. Designed for the conversion of up to 11 million affected worldwide EA-189 engines VW claims to 6.7 billion euros back
New software problems VW: Investigation Commission requests further callback
Thursday, November 26, 05.23 Clock: Volkswagen has for information of “World” new software problems which directly affect the fuel consumption of cars. In the current case it comes to software for the recovery of energy, with the car batteries can be charged. With a larger, as yet unknown number of cars with internal combustion engines work the technique for so-called recuperation, so the energy recovery, not.
Volkswagen confirmed the problem. “There is a malfunction in the software in question,” said a spokesman. From the holders of the affected cars they can not be seen. “We will check the currently. Not all cars of a certain prototype affected, but only certain vehicles. “At a meeting with the Commission of Inquiry to investigate the exhaust affair VW representative had acknowledged the problems for the first time.
The Commission had Volkswagen then prompted a to check product recall. “If a software error affects the consumption and thus CO2 emissions of a vehicle, you have to wonder whether each approval still has validity,” said one of the commissioners of the “world”. A Volkswagen spokesman said a recall was currently being considered. Is more likely, however, to correct the error in the context of inspections.
At present, it is determined which series are affected by the problems. The technology for recovering energy is practically installed in all recent models of the VW group. That does not mean, however, that there faulty software has been deployed everywhere. But it is clear that the malfunction occurs in vehicles, so in cars that were built from the 22nd calendar week of the year.
The recuperation technology ensures that when rolling cars the battery charged without recourse to the alternator becomes. So it does not need to hold the engine the charge state of the starter battery at a certain level. This level is necessary to ensure a constant power consumption in the car, for example, radio or air conditioning. Thus, the recuperation saves fuel, because the use of the alternator reduces engine power – and under full load, depending on the vehicle by five to seven percent
In the current problems do not involve intentional manipulation of components as in the case. the control software for controlling the nitrogen oxide emissions in diesel engines, which had triggered the exhaust affair. And although the CO2 emissions and, thus, consumption is the focus again in the current case, it is not about misrepresentation on the part of Volkswagen -. But simply about technical problems
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