Ingolstadt / Wolfsburg (DK) VW is due to the exhaust affair under severe pressure. It threatens billions in fines and an immense loss of confidence. “Diesel Gate” but could also Audi make violently than before: The Cheat software supposedly comes from Ingolstadt
“now it comes to the truth, and I will not rest until everything is on the table.” It promised Audi CEO Rupert Stadler in November last year in an interview with our newspaper, after the exhaust gas scandal at VW Group became noised. It was him primarily to the 3.0-liter diesel six-cylinder from the same company, in the motor control, the US environmental authorities want to have also found a cheat software for manipulating the nitrogen oxide emissions. In terms of “Defeat Device” in the compromised by VW four-cylinder diesel – development code EA 189 – saw Audi rather the parent under Enlightenment forced
This might have changed fundamentally, if really true what the “Handelsblatt. “will have found. Accordingly, the exhaust-fraud originates not in Wolfsburg, but rather in the Technical Development of Audi in Ingolstadt. Namely, there are, according to the newspaper in 1999 – Development Board was then the former BMW-husband Werner Mischke – the engine developers were looking for ways and means, “clean” to get their engines accordingly in view of increasingly stringent emission limits in Europe. It is “the use of illegal software” have been planned. Relevant information would have received the investigators commissioned by VW US law firm Jones Day, so the sheet further. But: “For use of illegal plan at Audi never came until years later the software generated interest – in Wolfsburg..”
here, engineers were, in 2005 in the development of the four-cylinder diesel EA 189 facing the same problem as their counterparts before in Ingolstadt, it said. The new unit should also the common-rail technology are used. The fuel is provided in a constantly under high pressure pipe system to which the injectors are connected for the individual cylinders. Injection timing and fuel metering then completed an electronic engine controller. In this way, the fuel in the cylinders is better burnt and significantly reduce the emission of soot particles. but this purpose creates more nitrogen oxides (NOx).
This circumstance was for VW developers seem such a big problem that they are “in the tool box” intervened considering significantly tighter emissions standards in the USA by Audi and the sheet According also adopted a technology developed by Bosch software. Earlier reports indicate the auto supplier VW but he pointed out that software for testing purposes only and under no circumstances to be used for mass production
In Wolfsburg you obviously did not waste it. “Could the Audi people by 1999, the limits still comply with legal means, colleagues met with the development of the EA 189 to its limits, “writes the” Handelsblatt “. The stricter emission limits would have let obviously comply “with deception.” the cheat software was camouflaged according to the report already at Audi as “acoustic function” or “Acoustic mode”. And this term led investigators ultimately on the track to Ingolstadt. Incriminating have Jones Day can not be found on the Danube though, but could be the genesis of “Diesel Gate” at the US environmental authorities avidly. There still is the one used from 2009 to 2015 six-cylinder diesel from Audi on suspicion of illegal exhaust manipulation. It stated yesterday in Ingolstadt, the discussions with the authorities were still. Otherwise, however, Audi and VW cases, with regard to the most recent reports to the exhaust scandal, in silence: “In view of the ongoing investigation, we can not comment,” it says in unison in Ingolstadt and Wolfsburg
. However, the moment of truth for the VW Group is getting closer. In the next few days the US lawyers Jones Day the Supervisory Board will submit a report to “Diesel Gate”. These then will VW “later this month” to make a statement, a spokesman of the group.
In connection with the exhaust gas scandal and the Federal Motor Vehicle Office unit (KBA) increasingly into the twilight. According to “Handelsblatt” left it to the authority of the VW subsidiary, to examine its six-cylinder diesel itself. It had then been no problems to make the Journal, citing sources familiar with the process. Actually the Braunschweig prosecutor
had the KBA charge of the investigation.
By Carsten rust
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