Sep 22, 2015 · VW has had a major push to sell diesel cars in the US, backed by a huge marketing campaign trumpeting its cars' low emissions. The EPA's findings cover 482,000 cars in the US only, including...

The Volkswagen emissions scandal, sometimes known as Dieselgate [24] [25] or Emissionsgate, [26] [25] began in September 2015, when the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act …

Mar 16, 2017 · In September 2015, Volkswagen was accused of installing illegal software on cars to evade standards on diesel emissions. Revelations of the deception led to the resignation of the company’s...

Dec 4, 2019 · Volkswagen installed emissions software on more than a half-million diesel cars in the U.S.—and roughly 10.5 million more worldwide—that allows them to sense the unique parameters of an emissions...

Jan 11, 2017 · Volkswagen AG (VW) has agreed to plead guilty to three criminal felony counts and pay a $2.8 billion criminal penalty as a result of the company’s long-running scheme to sell approximately 590,000 diesel vehicles in the U.S. by using a defeat device to cheat on emissions tests mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the ...

12 hours ago · Volkswagen's efforts to make up for Dieselgate also included a speedy move over to EVs. The result was the ID.4 , which is an impressive car. And Volkswagen just keeps on revealing new EVs in ...

Aug 7, 2023 · The Volkswagen Dieselgate scheme affected more than 500,000 vehicles in the U.S. and over 10.4 million cars sold worldwide.

Nov 16, 2020 · Five years after the Volkswagen emissions scandal, also known as Dieselgate, a court-appointed monitor from the Justice Department has found that Volkswagen has met the conditions of its 2017 plea bargain.

Sep 23, 2015 · Former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler has been charged by German prosecutors over his alleged role in the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal, along with three other defendants who were not named. Stadler is...

Volkswagen had intentionally programmed turbocharged direct injection (TDI) diesel engines to activate emissions controls only during emissions testing. [9] In January 2017, VW pleaded guilty to the emissions scandal and agreed to pay US$4.3 billion in penalties.