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Dark clouds still hang over VW for its diesel emissions scandal. AFP via Getty Images Five years ago today, the automotive world was rocked by explosive allegations that Volkswagen had been cheating on its air pollution emissions tests. The practices, discovered in the United States, soon proved to …
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18th September 2020, Brussels – High climate reduction targets set today can pave the way for a zero and low emission mobility tomorrow, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) highlighted in comments to mark the fifth year anniversary of the Dieselgate scandal. Ambitious policy action is needed …
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German carmaker Volkswagen has still not compensated motorists who were defrauded by 2015’s emissions-cheating scandal, according to consumer groups. Five years after Dieselgate, the EU is still struggling to tidy up the mess. Motorists that bought a VW fitted with a so-called defeat device – …
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Carmaker Daimler AG and subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA LLC agreed on Monday to pay US$1.5 billion to the United States to resolve accusations that they were manipulation engines to cheat on emission tests. Another settlement reached in dieselgate scandal. (Photo: pxfuel)Daimler described the deal as …
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Scandals such as “Dieselgate” could no longer pass undetected at Volkswagen due to the strengthening of compliance and complaints procedures under the guidance of a US court-appointed monitor, the German carmaker said on Monday. “A company the size of Volkswagen, with 670,000 employees, probably …
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Photo: Getty Images (Getty Images) The Morning ShiftAll your daily car news in one convenient place. Isn’t your time more important? Dieselgate is closer to being done and dusted, McLaren has a certified pre-owned program, and Nikola fires back at a short seller. All that and more in The Morning …
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Photo: Getty Images (Getty Images) The Morning ShiftAll your daily car news in one convenient place. Isn’t your time more important? Dieselgate is closer to being done and dusted, McLaren has a certified pre-owned program, and Nikola fires back at a short seller. All that and more in The Morning …
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An awareness campaign, asking cyclists (especially female cyclists) how they fell and the quality of the bike infrastructures, in a campaign to reduce road accidents. They hope to increase the modal split in favour of cyclists, at the moment very low (1,8%)
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BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany – Former Volkswagen Group chairman Martin Winterkorn and four other former senior VW managers have been ordered to stand trial on charges of serious fraud in Germany for their role in the dieselgate emission manipulation scandal that so far has cost the company over €29.6 …
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A German court today ordered former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn to stand trial on charges of organized commercial fraud over his alleged involvement in the ‘dieselgate’ emissions rigging scandal. In 2015 the US formally charged Volkswagen with defrauding the US government and consumers after …
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