Volkswagen is preparing a millionfold callback procedure to terminate the exhaust manipulation.
In exhaust scandal of Volkswagen another software for emission control has come to the attention of the American authorities. The computer program would in use since 2009 diesel engines are used, which are also equipped with the so-called “Defeat Device” for manipulating measurements at emission tests, the financial agency Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a Inaugurated source.
The reference to new studies, which go beyond the use of the previously known cheat software, VW US CEO Michael Horn had given on Thursday itself. During a hearing before the US Congress he informed the deputies that VW had withdrawn the application for the approval of diesel cars of model year 2016 because the US Environmental Protection Agency an installed in the vehicles auxiliary device (“Auxiliary Emission Control Device”) is required to examine.
So far, however, it is unclear whether this is a legitimate means of emission control, or to further manipulation software. “We are working with the authorities to continue the certification process,” Horn said. An EPA spokesman told Bloomberg, VW had been delivered only very preliminary information about the recently identified device whose purpose will now be examined.
© AP Volkswagen America CEO Michael Horn before a committee of the House.
Volkswagen America CEO Michael Horn before a committee of the House.
A VW spokeswoman gave no details on demand. Among the possible consequences of the delayed approval process, it was simply that had been shipped from the Model 2016 to authorized dealers no affected cars. How many vehicles relates to the reclusive application for certification and the costs associated therewith for VW, remained unclear. In recent years were about 20 percent of sales in the United States VW diesel cars.
The California Environmental Protection Agency CARB considering obviously necessary to draw VW vehicles off the road: “If there is no technical solution that threaten the closure of the cars and Civil disputes with the customers.” Volkswagen had asked a few days ago for patience and announced its intention to start the recall of around 480,000 vehicles affected in the United States until January.
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An EPA representative had said on Thursday at the hearing in Congress, we expect in the coming week with the first preliminary possible solutions. VW chief US Horn dampened but the hope for a speedy overcoming. It will probably take at least one to two years to solve the problems properly.
First, it comes to the American regulators to submit an acceptable proposal, as the special software can be modified to manipulate the exhaust readings. The “Defeat Device” said software determines whether the cars are in an emission test. Only then the exhaust-cleaning is activated in the normal mode, the air pollution is higher by a multiple.
The authority in California has director Nichols According to their recorded no contact with the German government during the tests, the hardened the suspicion against VW. However, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) have complained to a visiting California in 2010 compared to Nichols and ex-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the strict limits for diesel vehicles, said the authorities boss. In the US, the limit value for nitrogen oxides is significantly lower than in the EU.
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