Automaker Daimler AG and subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA have agreed to pay $1.5 billion to resolve allegations they cheated on emissions tests, officials said Monday. The U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency and the California attorney general’s office said Daimler violated environmental laws by using so-called “defeat device software” to circumvent emissions testing. In doing so, the companies sold roughly 250,000 cars and vans between 2009 and 2016 with diesel engines that didn’t meet state and federal standards. The settlement, which includes civil penalties and still awaits court approval in Washington, will require Daimler to fix the already sold vehicles.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mercedes-benz-daimler-emissions-cheating-1-5-billion-fine/

Porsche will no longer make diesel-powered vehicles, opting instead to invest more money into electric and hybrid technology, the company said over the weekend.

waning demand combined with the fallout from the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal has accelerated Porsche’s move away from diesel. Now it’s ditching diesel for good.

Munich prosecutors said Rupert Stadler was being detained due to fears he might hinder an ongoing investigation into the scandal.
The news has plunged Volkswagen into a leadership crisis.

DIESELSKANDAAL The German authorities ordered Daimler to inspect and, if necessary, repair 774,000 Mercedes-Benz diesel powered throughout Europe.
According to Bloomberg, a massive repair reminder is based on suspicions that the manufacturer has installed software misleading for Mercedes-Benz.

This was a great deal to be done by the German Vehicle Agency KBA and it was targeted at three C-Class sedan, Vito-type vans and a GLC-class street hatch

Last year, Daimler voluntarily called for three million types of car-type inspections

Source: https://www.is.fi/autot/art-2000005716427.html

A year and change after the car maker pleaded guilty to obstructing investigations and importing cars under false pretenses, Volkswagen’s former CEO Martin Winterkorn has been charged with conspiracy and wire fraud in a U.S. court. All of this stems from a diesel emissions scandal that ultimately found VW paying $4.3 billion in penalties.

Winterkorn stepped down from his role at Volkswagen in September of 2015, only a matter of days after the German car maker confessed to outfitting 11 million cars with a device designed to cheat at emissions testing.

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Volkswagen’s CEO is out following diesel scandal
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Matthias Müller is out as Volkswagen CEO, amid a diesel emissions scandal that shook the world’s largest car maker. The company confirmed the move today, naming Brand Chief Herbert Diess to the top job in his stead.

Müller had only been in the top role for three years, and while the chief executive was never charged in the scandal, many in the industry believe that he didn’t impose changes quickly enough after information came to light.

This time last year, the company was hit with a $2.8 billion penalty in the U.S., bringing its costs for the scandal up to around $30 billion,

BMW to recall 11,700 cars after installing wrong engine software
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bmw-emissions/bmw-to-recall-11700-cars-after-installing-wrong-engine-software-idUSKCN1G728U

German carmaker BMW (BMWG.DE) said on Friday it would recall 11,700 cars to fix their engine management software after it discovered that the wrong programming had been installed on its luxury 5- and 7-Series models.

BMW issued the statement after a report in news weekly Der Spiegel suggested it had installed software that manipulated emissions of harmful gases such as nitrogen oxide

Competitor Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) reached a multi-billion-dollar U.S. settlement after admitting installing so-called “defeat devices” on its diesel models designed to game emissions tests.

The car manufacturer attempted to prove that the inhalation of diesel cars in its cars caused lower health risks than before but the result was the opposite.

German car wreck financed unethical animal experiments and buried their results because they did not like it.
Even using the scam equipment did not help.
Testing was revealed last week.

Car manufacturer Volkswagen secreted the results of animal testing they did, as they did not like it. The EUGT test laboratory in the United States conducted a test in 2014.
The monkeys were exposed to exhaust gases for four hours, after which blood tests were taken and their respiratory organs were inspected.

German magazine Bild has received research materials and, according to them, VW’s inhaled monkeys suffer more. The result was the opposite of what VW had hoped for and the matter was buried.

Volkswagen claimed earlier that researchers never managed to publish the entire research.

The tests were funded by three German automobile manufacturers, namely Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW. Volkswagen was responsible for apes research.

The knowledge of monkey testing caused tremendous indignation in Germany and worldwide when it came to the public for the first time last week. It then became apparent that EUGT also made human experiments with emissions. The EUGT was closed last year.

Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/201801312200710231_ul.shtml

Dec. 10, 2017
The chief executive of Volkswagen said on Sunday that the German government should consider phasing out the subsidies that encourage Europeans to buy diesel cars, a startling change of position by the company largely responsible for diesel’s popularity in Europe.

“We should question the logic and purpose of diesel subsidies,”

In 2014, as evidence mounted about the harmful effects of diesel exhaust on human health, scientists in an Albuquerque laboratory conducted an unusual experiment: Ten monkeys squatted in airtight chambers, watching cartoons for entertainment as they inhaled fumes from a diesel Volkswagen Beetle.