The exhaust-affair with the rigged diesel engines has been badly hit VW, and the auto industry. Here you can read the history of the gas scandal. All information about the recall can be found here .
13. December: Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt wants to tighten the testing procedures for all major automakers In the future, they would have to, according to “Bild am Sonntag” make their engine software against the Federal Motor Vehicle Office fully accessible
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In addition, the auditors of TÜV and Dekra, measure the emission levels at the automakers should be replaced periodically in the future. In addition to governmental test rigs are used to follow-
9 December. Volkswagen has to deal in the United States with hundreds of plaintiffs in federal court in California. More than 500 lawsuits are to be bundled with the District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco. For VW’s what the civil actions primarily to allegations of car owners for fraud and breach of contract.
. 9 December: The sugarcoated CO2 values relate well significantly less cars than previously thought. instead of 800,000 vehicles will be affected more than 36,000 only after re-examination by the Federal Motor Vehicle Office, the Federal Ministry of Transport and VW. An overview of the affected models can be found here.
30. November: Volkswagen within time limit before the conversion plans for the remaining models with diesel engines manipulated. As a result, VW has to summon in Germany 2,460,876 vehicles in the workshops.
According to VW sufficient in the 1.2-liter engines a software update. “Our impression of retrofitting concepts is positive,” said Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt.
The holder of 1,537,896 cars of VW and VW Nutzfahrzeuge would receive in the coming weeks notices demonstration of their cars in the workshops. In the Group subsidiary Audi 531 813 cars were affected. In the Czech subsidiary Skoda there were 286,970 vehicles in Seat 104 197.
29th November: Did those in charge at VW in the spring of the exhaust-manipulation? According to “Bild am Sonntag” have the former CEO Martin Winterkorn at the time the sale of the Polo BlueMotion stopped because conspicuous readings . A VW spokesman described as “pure speculation”. The car had been taken off the market because of insufficient demand.
25. November: Workshop 3000 Porsche Cayenne are equipped in the US 13,000 with the Cheat software from VW, indicating to low emissions. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the carmaker to demand. The US authorities had initially thought only of 3000 affected luxury SUVs.
The US subsidiary of Porsche had early November stopped until further notice the sale of its Cayenne models with diesel engines of the series from 2014 to 2016. Earlier, the US Environmental Protection Agency had expanded its investigation of Volkswagen on the subsidiary Porsche brand.
25. November: KBA approves the VW proposals to revise the first manipulated diesel engines. At the 1.6-liter diesel engine, a change in the air grille and a software update must be performed. According to VW for the larger 2.0-liter TDI engines have enough uploading a new program. A solution for the small 1.2-liter engines will be available by the end of the month.
In addition, VW wants “with every customer contact” and the affected car owners during the scheduled January recall a free “replacement mobility” offer.
23rd November: VW has found technical solutions for more than 90 percent of the affected diesel models The said Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller before approximately 1,000 executives in Wolfsburg.. The cost of retrofitting was “technically, technically and financially manageable,” says Müller, according to the transcript.
In the two-liter diesel engine is sufficient for a software update, which the Federal Motor Transport Authority have (KBA) already agreed. Even the 1.6-liter engine VW have basically green light. In addition to an updated software mentioned here but also “hardware measures” necessary, admitted the CEO. But if it were “relatively simple changes in the air grilles or air filter cartridge”. The assumption that “basic operation on the motor are necessary,” did not come true.
The detailed measures for the 1.2-liter engine wants VW to present to the Federal Motor Transport Authority until the end of the month as Müller announced. “Again, probably takes is a software update,” he added.
The “Salzburger Nachrichten” Müller had previously said one strut to the end of world agreements with the authorities to order the exhaust manipulation finish: “The agreement with the authorities will be carried out this year.”
21st November: Also Audi must admit that diesel engines have been manipulated. All diesel vehicles VW and Audi with 3.0 turbo diesel engines from model years 2009-2016 were equipped with a suspicious software. The six-cylinder engines have been used for example in the Audi Q7 and A8. Affected are the Audi models A6, A7, A8 and Q5 model year from 2014 to 2016.
The software, however, is another, as the already known as a cheat program “Defeat Device”. It is called “Auxiliary Emission Control Device” (aecD) and also applies to Porsche.
A VW spokesman contradicted a report in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”, the Audi engineers have recognized that they “Schummel- software “have used. The offending software reacts to ambient temperatures and serve for quicker warm-up of the catalyst in the heating phase.
Test results of the US Environmental Protection Agency CARB showed, however, that emission values on the test bench at the aforementioned Audi models were significantly lower than in normal operation .
It was a shock that the Ingolstadt-based VW subsidiary was forced to admit to have tampered with diesel engines, said a supervisory board with respect to the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. An Audi spokesman said on Saturday night that he could not confirm the report in the newspaper.
19th November to repair the manipulated diesel engines with 1.6-liter displacement Volkswagen may need to plan as initially feared much less money According to “Business Week”, the pollutant emissions expensive by a software update and the installation of a ten Euro sensor. be rectified in the air filter. The solution was currently being reviewed by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) on suitability
On the part of the group did not want to report on Thursday to confirm. “The talks between Volkswagen and the KBA still ongoing,” said a VW spokesman. Only after that a statement would be taken.
19th November: The Management of Volkswagen has over US overseers according to a report already admitted about a month before the outbreak of the exhaust affair software problems According to “Handelsblatt” and the ZDF magazine. “Frontal21″ acknowledged representatives of the carmaker on August 19, in discussions with the California Air Resources Board CARB irregularities in programs for motor control one, it is said, citing a record from the Lower Saxony State Chancellery. It was of a “partial confession” talk – long before the release of the US Federal Environmental Protection Agency on 18 September that VW deceived of emission values for test measurements
VW management already knew long communication
the end of August there had been discussions about the further handling of the American regulators on the board of VW’s main brand. On September 3, Volkswagen acknowledged then compared with the EPA to have glossed over the said emissions of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas tests. Only on September 22, the Group announced a profit warning out and announced billion-accruals because of the scandal, the then retired CEO Martin Winterkorn apologized.
“More than one year discussions were held until Volkswagen acknowledged manipulation, “said Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) in October in the state parliament in Hanover. “This admission should have been made much earlier.”
19th November: Shortly before the end of an important ultimatum the California Environmental Authority CARB maintains the pressure on the exhaust Volkswagen scandal upright. “If they present no plan that is acceptable to us and the EPA, then we are penalties available – it does not go on forever, there is a deadline.” Said CARB chief Mary Nichols However, would you yet give the Wolfsburgern some time
VW:. period expires
On Friday runs for VW a first time limit within which the German carmaker US regulators proposals for a recall of must submit almost 500,000 diesel vehicles, was where a special software (“Defeat Device”) for manipulating emission tests installed in the US. The authorities then have 20 business days to review the plan.
VW threaten draconian punishments
“After that, we could potentially start to impose penalties,” said Nichols. However, it was not a question, VW to coat them with punishment, but to find a solution.
If VW case of a recall is not keeping to the agreement, there would be the opportunity to pull the affected cars from circulation , Nichols said. At the annual renewal of the registration then the license would be denied. “These are draconian punishments, and it is needless to say that we hope not to have to impose it.” However, the excessive air pollution by the vehicles must be stopped. “We are still waiting, as that can be solved.”
10th November: Federal Motor Vehicle Office wants all affected by the exhaust scandal VW models again on pollutant emissions, their fuel consumption and related CO Check 2 values . The Flensburger authority stated that the emissions from all vehicles would redetermined that are affected by data manipulation.
. 8 November: VW wants to distribute to affected customers in the US shopping vouchers According to the vouchers worth $ 1,000 each to the customer agree graciously.. $ 500 they should get on a debit card and may freely use, another 500 dollars intended as a voucher for workshop services.
For victims of exhaust scandal in Germany there are, incidentally no shopping vouchers.
. 6 November: VW has to admit that the souped-up CO2 data originate in manipulated test procedures The false information had come either through manipulations in the measurement process on the test stand or on correspondingly modified test car about.. So it was not – as announced a few days earlier – given only on paper to low CO2 levels
. 5. November: In order to get the diesel problem in the US in the handle, VW checks the replacement of the vehicles affected by new cars. The reports the Hamburg business magazine “Bilanz”. The conversion could cost up to ten billion euros. Approximately 500,000 diesel cars would otherwise have to be recalled – and if that resolves the problem of technically at all to high NOx emissions, is controversial.
. 4 November: After the new allegations in the exhaust affair of VW Porsche stops selling the Cayenne with a diesel engine in the United States. This is just a precaution. As the parent company VW has recently referred to by the US Environmental Protection Agency manipulation of larger diesel engines not so far acknowledged Porsche. The spokesman pointed out that you can still review the allegations and cooperating with the EPA.
. 3 November: More irregularities are known: With around 800,000 cars of the Group is “unexplained” give CO2 values , said the carmaker. The economic risks of this new problem are estimated at around two billion euros.
2. November: Does VW manipulated the emission values even with the three-liter TDI engines? This asserts the US Environmental Protection Agency. Volkswagen has rejected the new allegations as soon as possible.
2. November: A legal opinion brings bad news for VW owners. You could sit on follow-up costs of the recall after the exhaust scandal. The Consumer Federation (vzbv) calls by the Group therefore “maximum grace”.
28th October: The new Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller will drive the car maker with a five-point plan from the crisis. The highest priority enjoy doing the Help for Owners manipulated diesel cars, the manager said.
Point two is the elucidation of the manipulations. “We must find out the truth and learn from it,” said Müller. Thirdly, following the Group’s restructuring and cost-cutting program. “The key point is: Our Group is run in the future decentralized,” said Müller
point four were the working atmosphere and the understanding of leadership in the company.. Müller stressed: “We need a culture of openness and cooperation.” He called for the collegial interaction with each other also more courage, more creativity and more entrepreneurship.
In the fifth place, the CEO pointed to the expansion of existing targets for the year 2018. They will be the “Strategy 2025″. “The ‘higher, faster, further’ lot was subordinated, especially the return on sales”, Müller said, referring to the rival Toyota and General Motors. More important than 100,000 vehicles more or less than the competition to sell is “qualitative growth”. Middle of next year will Müller present the “Strategy 2025″.
28th October: At the start of the Tokyo Motor Show is VW brand chief Herbert Diess apologizes: “VW has done some things that were wrong.” VW will present good technical solutions for the affected diesel vehicles. “We will reveal the whole truth and disclose. We will make sure that something like this happens ever again,” said Diess further.
25. October: The VW Group is considering for the recall of 2.4 million diesel in this country also Eintauschprämien as an alternative to repair The idea that VW take the car in payment, while additional incentives. could put on a new car purchase, are mainly concerned with engines of 1.6 liters in focus. In the aggregate, not only a software update is sufficient, but it also needs new technology here – with corresponding costs for the components and the working hours
22nd. October: The Group assesses whether previous versions of the successor to the scandal engine EA189 are affected by the manipulation but apparently the Euro 5 versions of the EA 288 -. not been tampered with
21 – at least in Europe.. October VW imposed sales ban on affected models. Volkswagen has stopped the sale of new cars with manipulation software in the EU. In a letter, the group informed VW dealers across the crotch, as a spokesman confirmed on Wednesday. Previously, the industry magazine “Automotive Week” (online) had reported it. In some countries, the sale of diesel cars concerned had already been set.
The sales stop in EU countries apply to new vehicles that are already available at dealers, the spokesman explained. There were dealing with a “very limited number of vehicles”, because many new diesel cars meet the emission standard Euro-6 and are not affected by the manipulation. “In individual cases,” but it could happen that customer already ordered vehicles get therefore not delivered.
21st October: In the state chancellery in Hanover a dossier concerning the VW scandal has disappeared. The Lower Saxony government confirmed a corresponding newspaper report.
16th October: In exhaust scandal of VW Audi also fighting for the trust of customers. In response to the “Diesel-gate” has the VW subsidiary from 19 October on an extended warranty for used cars with the affected engines.
14th October: As a consequence of the VW affair Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks (SPD) wants to tighten emission standards and controls for all diesel vehicles emission limits would continue to be “so sophisticated that the diesel thereby really clean. “citing the” Süddeutsche Zeitung “on Wednesday from a position paper by the Minister. “Companies need to learn. In the long term can you look at the needs of environmental protection not escape” called
Reale tests
“The diesel drive will only have a future if the industry proves that they get it really clean, “writes Hendricks. This requires Europe-wide tests under real conditions, the results may differ only slightly from the limit values for a proposal from the EU Commission. Brussels had suggested last week that the real emissions in 2017 only allowed to be around 1.6 times more than the permitted levels, of 2019 to only to 1.2 times. “That would be a huge step forward, which we urgently need,” Hendricks wrote in her nine-point paper.
More checks, carmakers should bear the costs
Regulatory controls would also ensure “that the vehicles are designed so that they comply with low emissions on the road.” The cost of the control system would have to bear the manufacturer. The same had also called for the Federal Environment Agency. Thereafter, about the eco-plaques could depend on whether cars actually comply with the exhaust emissions.
More stringent emission zones
The municipalities should be allowed to defend themselves with driving restrictions against excessive concentrations of nitrogen oxides. The gases are considered to be hazardous to health. In “low emission zones” can cities such bans already imposed if the fine dust load is too high. “In the future they could also get the opportunity to also reduce the burden to do with this nitrogen dioxide,” wrote the minister. Your foray want Hendricks discuss with the Environment Ministers of the federal states.
Bosch CEO warns of unrealistic tests
In contrast, warns the head of the technology group Bosch, Volkmar Denner, prior to strict specifications. “If the (exhaust) limits now unrealistically lowered, so that they are no longer accessible by conventional internal combustion engines, then do it for the consumer, but also the industry no good,” Denner said. The internal combustion engine is a transitional technology “for a long time” required.
13. October: Due to the manipulation scandal Volkswagen has some of the clunker repay which were granted in 2009 and 2010 diesel drivers according to a report perhaps. The Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (Bafa) check for a recovery manipulated diesel vehicles, reported the “Manager Magazin” on Tuesday on its website. Decide wants BAFA accordingly but only if further investigation results are available in the VW affair.
. 13 October: Volkswagen strikes because of the exhaust scandal along its planned investments in the core VW brand. per year, the new brand chief Herbert Diess has around one billion euros less been planned for models and factories available as how VW announced in Wolfsburg on Tuesday. And otherwise is good news for the beleaguered group in short supply. In Hollywood film star Leonardo DiCaprio and the studio Paramount Pictures according to media want to make a film about the exhaust affair. Business associations and policy reiterated rapid workup of the scandal.
12th October Volkswagen’s former CEO Martin Winterkorn stands after matching media reports even before the withdrawal of its remaining offices in the Auto Group The 68-year-old had the top of the company to leave the maelstrom of the exhaust scandal, but has so far not from another chief functions. departed. These include the Chief Executive Officer of the Volkswagen anchor shareholder Porsche SE and the top job in the supervisory boards of the Group subsidiary Audi and in the young commercial vehicle holding the brands Scania and MAN.
12th October: The carmaker Volkswagen has recalled in China in 1950 diesel cars in the workshops For the import of vehicles types Tiguan and Passat, the engine software should be changed, the company said on Monday.. The program previously held the emission values in controls lower than under normal driving conditions. We have developed a technical solution to bring the problem in order that the authorities still had to be submitted for approval, said VW.
. 8 October raid at Volkswagen: The Braunschweig public prosecutor arranges raids in Wolfsburg and in other places to. VW-US CEO Michael Horn should be only the US Congress to answer questions.
. 7 October: Renewed crisis meeting of VW overseer , Pötschs change at the head of the supervisory body should be confirmed. According to Müller the recall of cars can begin in January 2016th
. 6 October council boss Bernd Osterloh and Müller speak at a works meeting in Wolfsburg for employees says Osterloh, so far there are no consequences for jobs – according to Müller, the exhaust affair but already planned investments in question
<.. p> . 4 October: According to “Bild am Sonntag” to VW’s engineers have said the internal audit, they had 2008, the software has been installed
2.. October: The US Congress announced that VW boss Michael Horn country has to face the deputies in an interview on October 8. On special websites customers from VW and Audi can check if your car uses the manipulation software.
1,. October: The Prosecutor Braunschweig rowing back: Contrary to earlier information it carries no formal procedure against Winterkorn. New VW chief financial officer is. After the change of Hans Dieter Pötsch the Supervisory Board of Director of Finance Division, Frank Witter.
30 September: The VW Financial daughter imposed a hiring freeze by year end, expiring temporary contracts are not renewed
29th. September: Volkswagen sets an action plan for improvement of diesel cars with manipulating software before and want to get five million vehicles in the core VW brand in the workshops The affected customers will soon be informed by post
25. September: The VW supervisory board meeting in Wolfsburg After an unexpectedly long meeting, the Board Porsche CEO Matthias Müller cites the new CEO and take some more personnel and structural decisions
24.. , September: The affair brings the entire industry in distress. accusations are loud, other manufacturers may have manipulated. Many deny that. There are also some staff speculation surrounding VW. Media reports, Porsche CEO Matthias Müller have to inherit the best chance Winterkorn.
23rd September. Winterkorn resigns . “I am shocked by what has happened in the past few days I am especially stunned that offenses of this scope within the Volkswagen Group were possible,” he explains his step. The Supervisory Board announces a decision on the follow-up.
22nd September: Even in markets outside the US, there are demands to provide clarity regarding the extent of the affair. VW issues a profit warning and announces billion-provisions. In a video Winterkorn apologizes.
21st September: Volkswagen will stop the sale of diesel cars with four-cylinder engines in the USA Affected models are there, the core brand VW and Audi daughter.. The preference shares of VW breaks temporarily an order for more than one fifth.
20 “We screwed up.” In the US, VW Regional Chief Michael Horn apologized. September. VW CEO Winterkorn has announced a comprehensive education at “I personally deeply regret that we have disappointed the trust of our customers and the public,” he tells and explains the theme to “highest priority”. Later, a spokesman of the group acknowledges that there have been irregularities.
18th September: The US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington with shares, Volkswagen have special software used to manipulate the evaluation of pollutant emissions in exhaust test
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