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21 April 2016: Volkswagen announces that it will offer its US customers "substantial compensation" and car buyback offers for nearly 500,000 2.0-litre vehicles. [11] 6 Nov 2016: Regulators in California discover that Audi engines were rigged to produce lower CO 2. [12] 7 January 2017
The Volkswagen CC, initially sold as the Volkswagen Passat CC, [4] is a car built by German marque Volkswagen from 2008 to 2016. [ citation needed ] It is a variant of the Volkswagen Passat that trades headroom and cargo space [ 5 ] for a coupé-like profile and sweeping roofline. [ 6 ]
Early in the 1950s scientists discovered that vehicle emissions were a significant factor that had been causing the air quality to deteriorate. [7] This led to the introduction of vehicle emissions standards in California in 1966, furthermore due to the seriousness of the problem, in 1970 the Clean Air Act was introduced in order to regulate these standards all over the United States. [7]
Many of the public electric vehicle chargers alongside California roads were built to atone for past wrongs. Electrify America, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, was born in the ashes of the company’s ...
Rear view Volkswagen Passat NMS (China). Volkswagen released a sketch of the Passat NMS in February 2009 and a more detailed, second sketch on 28 October 2009. [7] [8] The Passat NMS reflects a design language developed by Walter de Silva, the Italian design chief for the Volkswagen Group, and Klaus Bischoff, the German design leader for the Volkswagen brand.
Registers and regulates approximately 36,000 California automotive repair dealers. Licenses Smog Check stations, technicians, and inspectors. Licenses brake and lamp stations and adjusters. Mediates automotive repair complaints, saving California consumers millions of dollars each year in the form of direct refunds, rework, and bill adjustments.
In 2008, Volkswagen became the third-largest car maker in the world, [89] and, as of 2016, Volkswagen was the second largest manufacturer worldwide. [90] In 2018 the company benefited from trade tariffs and new emission standards, with a record deliveries of 10.8 million vehicles. [ 91 ]
State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, on Thursday announced Senate Bill 1166, which he said was meant to add oversight through investigations at California State University campuses, the University of ...