Volkswagen emissions scandal
The Volkswagen emissions scandal, sometimes called Dieselgate[1][2] or Emissionsgate,[3][2] started in September 2015 and involves the car brand Volkswagen. The United States Environmental Protection Agency found a program which was intentionally put in Volkswagen vehicles that made their Turbocharged Direct Injection (TDI) engines to activate emissions controls only during laboratory emissions testing, which caused the vehicle to meet US standards only during testing. The vehicles ended up emitting 40 times more emissions in real world driving conditions than in the lab. This caused Volkswagen (and its sub-brands such as Audi and Skoda), to recall 11 million cars altogether worldwide which were produced within the years of 2009-2015.[4][5][6][7]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Parloff, Roger (6 February 2018). "How VW Paid $25 Billion for 'Dieselgate' – and Got Off Easy". Fortune. US. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Aichner, Thomas; Coletti, Paolo; Jacob, Frank; Wilken, Robert (2021). "Did the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal Harm the "Made in Germany" Image? A Cross‑Cultural, Cross‑Products, Cross‑Time Study". Corporate Reputation Review. 24 (4): 179–190. doi:10.1057/s41299-020-00101-5. S2CID 229016335.
- ↑ Cormack, Lucy; Hatch, Patrick (1 September 2016). "ACCC takes Volkswagen to court over diesel emission claims". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ↑ "EPA, California Notify Volkswagen of Clean Air Act Violations / Carmaker allegedly used software that circumvents emissions testing for certain air pollutants". US: EPA. 18 September 2015. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ Jordans, Frank (21 September 2015). "EPA: Volkswagon [sic] Thwarted Pollution Regulations For 7 Years". CBS Detroit. Associated Press. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ↑ "Abgasaffäre: VW-Chef Müller spricht von historischer Krise". Der Spiegel. Reuters. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- ↑ Ewing, Jack (22 September 2015). "Volkswagen Says 11 Million Cars Worldwide Are Affected in Diesel Deception". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
Other websites[change | change source]
- EPA Notice of Violation
- State of California EPA In-Use Compliance Letter Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- Written Testimony of Michael Horn, CEO of Volkswagen Group of America Before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, 8 October 2015
- Analysis of the emission scandal from a procedural, organizational and technical level: The exhaust emissions scandal ("Dieselgate"), talk at 2015 Chaos Communication Congress.
- U.S. v. Volkswagen AG, Complaint, Filed 4 January 2016
- Infographic – simple overview
- Koberstein, Hans (15 August 2017). The VW emissions scandal – past, present and future. DW-TV. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- "UK drivers win first round in VW 'dieselgate' case". BBC. UK. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.