Volkswagen: KBA rated Umrüstplan as “positive” – ​​SPIEGEL ONLINE

For the youngest affected by the manipulation affair at Volkswagen engines According to VW reaches a software update for rectification of. The Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) have the solution for the 1.2-liter engine rated positively, Volkswagen said. But yet lacked the appropriate communication from the Office.

Previously already Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) had expressed this in the “world”. “My investigation Commission has introduced all the technical solutions for the 1.2, 1.6 and 2.0 liter engines. Our impression of retrofitting concepts is positive,” he told the newspaper. The solution for the smallest of the affected engines with 1.2 liter displacement put VW before last.

For VW, the software update is the best of all solutions. Because an electronic engages the Group to be more affordable than hardware changes. The exhaust scandal had the Group eingebrockt a billion loss in the third quarter. Before interest and taxes, the Group recorded a loss of around 3.5 billion euros.

The KBA had confirmed on Monday that VW had presented all the technical solutions for the refurbishment of three affected engine types within the prescribed period. However, it was not clear initially, as the solution for the small 1.2-liter diesel engine looks.

In Germany have a total of about 2.4 million VW vehicles as part of the exhaust affair to the workshop. According to VW The two-liter engine type EA 189 is enough to update the software. The conversion of the 1.6-liter engines is therefore a bit more complex: In addition to a software update, the mechanics have to intervene in the hardware there also. According to VW, it is sufficient, however, a small grid – a so-called flow transformer -. To be mounted on the engine block

The solutions are valid only for Europe

VW had in September admitted that a software has been used in approximately eleven million diesel vehicles, which reported the emission of nitrogen oxides in the test mode to be too low. In early November, the Wolfsburg-based company also admitted that at probably around 800,000 of its cars to the actual emissions of harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) is higher than indicated. The proposed measures relate exclusively to the manipulation of software and apply to vehicles in the European market.