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Volkswagen diesel sales in the US rebound, Clean Diesels win several environmental awards, receive tax breaks: 2013: International Council on Clean Transportation asks WVU CAFEE to help demonstrate the benefits of US diesel technology, hoping to have Europe follow suit: May 2014: Instead, CAFEE finds discrepancies showing poor on-road emissions.
Between 2009 and 2016, Volkswagen sold 590,000 diesel-engine vehicles with devices designed to cheat on federal emissions tests. The software was particularly focused on fooling federal tests that ...
In January 2017, VW pleaded guilty to the emissions scandal and agreed to pay US$4.3 billion in penalties. As of January 2019, 13 VW employees have been indicted, including former CEO Martin Winterkorn. In addition, two former executives (Oliver Schmidt and James Robert Liang) have pleaded guilty in US court and sentenced to prison terms. [10] [11]
Volkswagen and a German consumer group said Thursday they will conduct talks on a possible settlement in a landmark case in which hundreds of thousands of people aim to establish a right of ...
The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta Diesel Sedan was awarded Green Car of the Year.The award was rescinded in early October 2015. On 18 September 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said beginning in 2008 the car maker fraudulently installed engine control unit (ECU) software determined to be a "defeat device", in violation of the Clean Air Act, to circumvent environmental ...
Matt Cardy/Getty Images By Georgina Prodhan and Jan Schwartz FRANKFURT and HAMBURG, Germany -- The man Volkswagen (VLKAY) tapped less than three weeks ago to head its North American business ...
It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America, established in late 2016 by the automaker as part of its efforts to offset emissions in the wake of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Volkswagen , as part of its settlement following the "Dieselgate" emissions scandal, invested $2 billion in creating Electrify America.
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