Volkswagen USA LIED about changing its name to Voltswagen
Volkswagen marketing stunt name change to Voltswagen was either innocent, or a lie.
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Ford claiming largest EV charging network by riding the back of Electrify America
Today Ford Motors has announced it has the largest electric car charging network in the world, with over 12,000 charging locations. Uh, blink blink, how did that happen? It did not come about by buying the Car Charging Group (owner of the Blink network), writing “blink blink” was simply one’s…
US Congress to shield Volkswagen and other Corporations from class action lawsuits
A bill currently before Congress would make it nearly impossible to launch class action lawsuits. The VW Dieselgate scandal is begging for a class action lawsuit by vehicle owners who were all lied to by the Volkswagen Group, and all of whom have suffered economic damage from the scandal. Additionally,…
US EPA starts legal action against VW Group in Dieselgate scandal
The legal impact of Volkswagen’s illegal skirting of US Emissions Control laws is starting to be levied. Today, the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, launched a civil lawsuit against the Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., Volkswagen Group of…
Volkswagen announces five priorities to fix Dieselgate problem – will this help?
Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Müller announced today five steps that Volkswagen will take to rehabilitate itself from the Dieselgate scandal. In reading through the proposal, I don’t quite grok how it’s going to fix the problem. There are some aspects which may help, but nothing in this indicates that upper management…
File stolen from Dieselgate prosecutors office in Germany, while Audi reiterates electric car plans
The German press is reporting that a file (dossier) of research data in the Dieselgate (or what the Germans call Abgas-Affäre) investigation has been stolen from the prosecutors office. The Public Prosecutor is investigating this theft, which is disturbing even though it’s described as more of an annoyance because the file only…
Der Spiegel: Dieselgate fraud committed by group of at least 30 managers
According to a report published on Wednesday in Der Spiegel, Volkswagen’s Dieselgate scandal was not caused a small handful of people as Volkswagen upper management has claimed. Instead, at least 30 managers responsible were involved in deciding to commit to the Dieselgate fraud, or what Der Spiegel called “Abgasaffäre”. I’ve written…
Post-Dieselgate Volkswagen will focus on electric vehicles – yippee, I hope
Today Volkswagen made the announcement we wanted them to make that will eminently resolve the whole Dieselgate problem. In all the reams of material I’ve written about Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal, Dieselgate, the risk to VW’s electric vehicle plans have been screaming in the back of my mind. Will VW be…
VW Dieselgate emissions scandal screams a question – Who Watches the Watchman?
On Sept 18, 2015, the EPA and CARB jointly announced the Volkswagen Group had been caught cheating on emissions tests with its 2.0 liter TDI Diesel cars. The fraud had been perpetrated over a 6 year period during which the cars in question had been lauded as ultra-clean wonder cars.…
VW insists Dieselgate decisions made by low-level engineers, not by upper management
Where within Volkswagen was the decision made to cheat on emissions tests? Earlier I’d reported on statements by Volkswagen’s supervisory board suggesting that the top management was not responsible, and that instead pointed fingers at engineers within the company. Upon Winterkorn’s resignation (the previous CEO), the supervisory board explicitly…
EPA opposed DMCA exemption which could enable research of Dieselgate-like software problems
In July, the EPA officially opposed proposed copyright rules which would have made it easier for independent researchers to catch Volkswagen’s emissions cheating. Last month, the EPA and CARB accused Volkswagen of cheating on emissions tests by programming VW and Audi 2.0 liter TDI Diesel cars to detect when they’re…
Budget shortfall meant EPA couldn’t catch Volkswagen Dieselgate cheating
Another open question in the Volkswagen Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal is – Why wasn’t Volkswagen’s fraud caught earlier? We’ve been told the cheating began with VW’s 2009 model year 2.0 Liter TDI Diesel cars, the ones fitted with the EA 189 engine. The cheating was not verified until early September 2015.…
VW to be gravely damaged by Dieselgate scandal, may delay VW’s EV plans
Another open question in the Volkswagen Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal is the total cost for penalties, damages payments, etc? Will Volkswagen survive this mess? Will Volkswagen be able to fulfill the promising line of electric vehicles planned for 2017-2018 debut? Recently VW’s new CEO has reportedly said Volkswagen might not survive.…
Volkswagen chose Dieselgate emissions cheating in 2008, just before EA 189 engine went into production
Getting back to the Volkswagen Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, one of the open questions is “when” and “why” did VW resort to cheating on emissions tests? Earlier I’d reported statements in the press that Bosch had warned Volkswagen as far back as 2007 against using certain test software to control…
TFLCar verifies significant power loss in VW TDI Diesel emissions testing – validating Dieselgate
In an earlier video from TFLCar, they asked five significant questions about the Dieselgate scandal. These questions circled around various aspects of “Why did VW decide to cheat the emissions tests?” VW’s management aren’t idiots, they had to have a reason for committing this fraud. One question was how much power is…
