Volkswagen diesel scandal
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The Volkswagen diesel emission scandal erupted last September, when the EPA formally issued a Notice of Violation to one of the world's three largest automakers for willfully violating U.S. emission laws for seven years. Since then, much speculation has appeared over what forms of punishment VW would face and how much it would have to pay. We now have a number, and it’s even higher than many expected. DON'T MISS: VW diesel settlement details: buybacks, payments, modifications, fines, more The Volkswagen Group has agreed to pay up to $14.7 billion for intentionally deceiving the public...
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VW thinks it can fix 85,000 V-6 diesels from Audi, Porsche, and Volkswagen
Volkswagen believes it can address excess emissions from 3.0-liter V-6 TDI diesels.
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What will I get for my VW diesel car in the buyback?
Here's what you can expect to get for your VW TDI diesel in the recently-announced settlement.
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What will VW do with 400,000 dirty diesel cars it buys back?
What will VW do with 400,000 dirty diesel cars it buys back? Destroy them, probably
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VW diesel settlement details: buybacks, payments, modifications, fines, more
More than nine months after the Volkswagen diesel cheating scandal came to light, the full details of the proposed final settlement between VW and the EPA were released this morning by Judge Charles Breyer. Owners of the TDI diesel vehicles from Audi and Volkswagen fitted with "defeat device"...
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VW to offer TDI diesel owners $7,000 plus buyback: rumor
With terms of a final settlement between Volkswagen and the EPA on 482,000 TDI diesel vehicles due to be announced next Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer has imposed a gag order on all parties. That doesn't seem to have stopped unidenitfied sources from talking about possible terms contained in the...
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With full details of the Volkswagen diesel cheating settlement postponed again, VW TDI owners have an extra week to contemplate their diesel cars without knowing what they'll be offered in a buyback. Earlier analyses of used-car pricing data showed that their value as used cars has fallen since the scandal broke last September. Those vehicles also lingered on the market for an extraordinarily long time before they sold, if they did. DON'T MISS: VW diesel settlement delayed one more week by judge Now a new study has confirmed the decline in value for VW and Audi diesel vehicles, and put some...
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Volkswagen diesel settlement delayed one more week by judge
Next Tuesday was to be the day when owners of almost half a million Volkswagens and Audis learned the final terms VW would offer them to settle hundreds of lawsuits over its diesel-emission cheating software. It won't be. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer gave Volkswagen and the EPA one more week...
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Volkswagen's plan to bounce back? 30 electric cars in 10 years
Roughly a week before the automaker is expected to tell a court how it plans to make amends for lying about cheating diesels, Volkswagen announced Thursday a far-reaching plan to stake the company's future on battery electric vehicles. Last year, the company admitted millions of diesel cars...
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Diesel BMW 7-Series won't be sold in U.S., company confirms
BMW will not offer a diesel version of the recently-redesigned 7-Series in the U.S.
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VW diesel settlement: progress being made on details, judge says
The Federal judge overseeing negotiations toward a U.S. settlement of the Volkswagen diesel-emission cheating scandal said Tuesday that good progress was being made toward reaching a final resolution by June 21. The Environmental Protection Agency and Volkswagen are on track to file a final...
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These engineers uncovered the VW diesel emission scandal
How West Virginia University engineers uncovered Volkswagen's emissions cheating.
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Last November, the EPA announced that nearly 100,000 cars and SUVs fitted with VW Group's 3-liter V-6 diesel engines violated the Clean Air Act. The agency said at the time that their emissions were up to nine times the legal limit in some circumstances. While that's better than the figure of "up to 35 times" legal limits for some 2.0-liter 4-cylinder VW diesels, we now know the broad outlines of a buyback-or-fix agreement for those 2-liter cars. CHECK OUT: VW 2.0-liter diesel agreement: what we know (and don't know) in 5 questions Owners of the larger diesel vehicles remain in limbo, not...
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How VW's 3-liter diesel cheat worked; fate unclear for V-6 TDI vehicles
After last month's announcement of a plan that could pull hundreds of thousands of illegally polluting VW Group diesel cars off the road, one out of every six TDI owners is still in limbo. That's because the plan covers only the 482,000 cars equipped with Volkswagen's 2.0-liter 4-cylinder...
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VW diesel 'defeat' software built by Audi, which never used it
Audi developed a "defeat device" in 1999, a new report claims.
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VW diesel buyback: what other automakers paid for used vehicles
A main aspect of the agreement between VW and the EPA to settle its diesel-emission cheating scandal is an offer by Volkswagen to buy back all 482,000 2.0-liter TDI diesel vehicles sold from 2009 through 2015. The details of that agreement won't be made public until June 21, and won't be finalized...
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VW CEO's 'plea for mercy' to Obama over diesel cheating scandal
Sometimes the language and imagery of a news story is so startling that you're drawn to read it despite yourself. (The writer gets double points if it you're lured in without the phrase, "...and you'll never guess what happens next!") A headline and phrase last week in The New York Times happened...
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Volkswagen misses own deadline for diesel-cheating report, now expected by end of year
Ten days ago, a major milestone in the Volkswagen diesel cheating scandal was reached. On Thursday, April 21, VW and the EPA agreed on the broad-stroke outlines of a plan to buy back or modify for 482,000 2.0-liter TDI diesel cars sold from 2009 through 2015. Almost lost in the coverage of that...
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Are there many different ways to reduce the carbon associated with road vehicles? Or are electric vehicles the best and only viable way to proceed? That's the debate at the heart of two different reports on Volkswagen's recent actions in Europe this week. DON'T MISS: VW settlement with EPA announced over diesel emission scandal At the company's annual meeting earlier this week, VW Group CEO Matthias Müller reiterated the company's plans to "make electric cars one of Volkswagen's new hallmarks." The company will have 20 new models that plug in by 2020, he said, according to a report in...
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Emission, fuel-economy test issues spread: Mitsubishi, Daimler, others being investigated
Mitsubishi, Daimler, and several other carmakers are under scrutiny for fuel-economy and emissions irregularities.
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VW diesel agreement: what we know (and don't know) in 5 questions
Yesterday's news that Volkswagen and the U.S. EPA had reached agreement on a deal to address VW's diesel-emission cheating scandal brought as much confusion as clarity. The carmaker and the regulator said they had agreed on the general outline of a deal to offer owners a choice of either...
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VW settlement with EPA announced over diesel emission scandal (updated)
Volkswagen and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today that they had reached an agreement on a plan to address hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles sold over six years deliberately designed to violate U.S. emission laws. The agreement, released at 8 am California time this morning...
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Volkswagen may buy back 500,000 illegally polluting cars, report says
Volkswagen may buy back more than 500,000 illegally polluting cars in the U.S., Reuters reported Wednesday. The news agency’s report follows one from German newspaper Die Welt that the automaker may offer $5,000 to settle with owners of affected cars. A federal judge in San Francisco is...
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European fix for VW diesels complies with law, but real-world emissions still too high
Updates to the millions of Volkswagen TDI diesel cars that turned out not to meet European emission regulations were supposed to be well underway by now. German authorities had signed off on the modifications—software updates and for one group of engines, a new plastic insert to alter...
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