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By Silvia Martelli (September 28, 2021, 6:11 PM BST) — European Union authorities called on Volkswagen on Tuesday to compensate all consumers in the bloc for misleading them about its vehicles’ emissions, accusing the auto giant of dragging its feet six years after the scandal broke. The European …
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In June 2018, Mercedes – along with BMW and Volkswagen – was found by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) to have fitted cheating software into their diesil engines, which limited emissions during testing, underrepresenting the true emissions released on the road. This resulted in …
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‘Disgusted’ motorists from Nottinghamshire have vowed to sue Mercedes over allegations some of the luxury German brand’s vehicles were installed with ‘defeat devices’ in the so-called ‘dieselgate’ scandal. They are demanding answers and working with consumer rights law specialists to launch a claim …
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BRUSSELS — A top European Union legal adviser said Thursday that software installed in Volkswagen cars to alter the amount of pollutants coming out of their exhaust pipes in hot or cold weather and at high altitude doesn’t conform to the 27-nation bloc’s laws. The case arose when Austrian courts …
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The European Union’s top court has all but confirmed that so-called defeat devices, used to trick emissions tests in cars, are contrary to EU law. The development comes in a legal opinion in a case against Volkswagen and Porsche on Thursday from Advocate General Athanasios Rantos, who said that …
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The VW logo is seen at the site of the first hearing of a consumer group’s class action suit on behalf of Volkswagen owners against VW over the diesel emissions cheating scandal, at the Higher Regional Court in Braunschweig, Germany, September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/File Photo BRUSSELS, …
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Guy Robson, partner at Keller Lenkner UK, discusses Dieselgate and how the past continues to haunt the car industry. In July this year, the European Commission fined the Volkswagen Group (which includes Volkswagen, Porsche and Audi) and BMW €875 million for breaching EU competition law by colluding …
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Former VW boss Martin Winterkorn was told about the emissions defeat devices fitted to the company’s cars going before the scandal came to light, but failed to intervene, a German court has been told. In the first related trial to take place since the Dieselgate scandal broke in 2015, four ex-VW …
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Business Four former Volkswagen managers are on trial for organized commercial fraud relating to the company’s emmission scandal. Ex-CEO Martin Winterkorn’s trial has been split from the proceedings for health reasons. Watch video 01:32
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Sustainable Business Posted Four former executives of carmaker Volkswagen went on trial on Thursday over the company’s emissions cheating scandal, but former CEO Martin Winterkorn wasn’t among them, with his trial due to take place at a later date. Julian Satterthwaite reports.
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