VW In Trouble Over "Adjusting" Vehicle Emissions at Testing in US

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The US authorities have picked up on a way VW has been "adjusting" Diesel vehicle emissions to rig them so they show a lower level of pollution at testing.

Once tested, the vehicle would revert back to higher levels of emission when the driver took them back out on the road.

What they thought they were doing in setting it this way is completely beyond me.

VW's share price has dropped over 20%, equating to about €14 billion dollars, and there's the potential for fines running into of billions of dollars.

Not only will the US market be questioning VWs claims, but other markets will be concerned that it has the same problem.

This will go down as a classic way to destroy a reputation in a matter of hours.

More info [bbc.co.uk...]

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I was speaking with someone that owns a VW and they are feeling pretty annoyed having been fooled into thinking their vehicle (pollution) was better than is was. They are definitely up for a fight over this, but are waiting for the official announcements in their jurisdiction.

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Some Mercedes, BMW and Peugeot Models Consuming Around 50% More Fuel than Official Results
[transportenvironment.org...]

New cars, including the Mercedes A, C and E class, BMW 5 series and Peugeot 308, are now swallowing around 50% more fuel than their lab test results, new on-the-road results compiled by Transport & Environment (T&E) reveal. The gap between official and real-world performance found in many car models has grown so wide that it cannot be explained through known factors including test manipulations. While this does not constitute proof of ‘defeat devices’ being used to fiddle fuel economy tests, similar to that used by Volkswagen, EU governments must extend probes into defeat devices to CO2 tests and petrol cars too.

^ That didn't take long.