VW solve emissions problem
In a race to find a solution to their downright lies and skulduggery, VW engineers are trying anything to get their cars to run cleanly... the self destruct mode doing a good job in this car, just another few million to go chaps!
Rather bizarrely the female of the Beetle (a convertible) is an asthmatic. I guess she doesn't have the top down very often then.
Volkswagen aren't having a very good time at the moment, but then they only have themselves to blame. Filthy cars, dubious business and environmental morals.
On Friday, 18 September 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said beginning in 2008 the automaker illegally installed ECU software determined by the EPA to be a "defeat device", in violation of the Clean Air Act designed to circumvent environmental regulations on emissions of NOx pollution by diesel engined 2009-2015 model year Volkswagen and Audi cars sold in the US. The software detects when the cars were being subjected to emissions testing, and then fully enables emission controls to pass. During normal driving conditions, emission control activity was reduced for other benefits, resulting in the release of as much as 40 times more pollution than allowed by law.
Volkswagen have hired Kirkland & Ellis law firm for their defence, the same firm that defended BP during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
This link provides an excellent explanation via a video of the issue and the level of deceit Volkwagen managers and engineers (yes, a whole team of them would have known) have gone to in an attempt to give the engines better MPG at the cost of pollution: www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9365667/volkswagen-clean-diesel-rec...
Volkswagen couldn't balance performance with low pollution.
So it cheated and is now paying the price.
See photos and a video of this incident here:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297303/Dramatic-moment-...
VW solve emissions problem
In a race to find a solution to their downright lies and skulduggery, VW engineers are trying anything to get their cars to run cleanly... the self destruct mode doing a good job in this car, just another few million to go chaps!
Rather bizarrely the female of the Beetle (a convertible) is an asthmatic. I guess she doesn't have the top down very often then.
Volkswagen aren't having a very good time at the moment, but then they only have themselves to blame. Filthy cars, dubious business and environmental morals.
On Friday, 18 September 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said beginning in 2008 the automaker illegally installed ECU software determined by the EPA to be a "defeat device", in violation of the Clean Air Act designed to circumvent environmental regulations on emissions of NOx pollution by diesel engined 2009-2015 model year Volkswagen and Audi cars sold in the US. The software detects when the cars were being subjected to emissions testing, and then fully enables emission controls to pass. During normal driving conditions, emission control activity was reduced for other benefits, resulting in the release of as much as 40 times more pollution than allowed by law.
Volkswagen have hired Kirkland & Ellis law firm for their defence, the same firm that defended BP during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
This link provides an excellent explanation via a video of the issue and the level of deceit Volkwagen managers and engineers (yes, a whole team of them would have known) have gone to in an attempt to give the engines better MPG at the cost of pollution: www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9365667/volkswagen-clean-diesel-rec...
Volkswagen couldn't balance performance with low pollution.
So it cheated and is now paying the price.
See photos and a video of this incident here:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297303/Dramatic-moment-...