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Audi offering free emissions software upgrade for up to 850,000 diesels

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Audi is offering its customers in Europe and other markets—outside of the US and Canada—a retrofit program for cars with EU5 and EU6 diesel engines. A total of up to 850,000 cars worldwide with six-cylinder and eight-cylinder diesel engines (V6/V8 TDI, EU5/EU6) will get new software. Earlier post.).

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Government of Canada opens an investigation into Volkswagen’s use of defeat devices to circumvent emissions regulations

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The Government of Canada is opening its own investigation into the Volkswagen Group’s use of a software defeat device to circumvent EPA standards for NO x. Canada’s emissions standards are in alignment with EPA’s. After careful assessment of the known facts, Environment Canada has opened an investigation into this matter.

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Audi introducing supercharged gasoline engine version of SQ5 SUV at Detroit Show

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Audi will introduce an SQ5 model powered by a supercharged gasoline engine at the upcoming Detroit Auto Show; heretofore, the SQ5 was only powered by a 3.0-liter liter V6 TDI Biturbo diesel, and was not available in the US. New Audi SQ5. The new Audi SQ5 shown at the Detroit Auto Show is powered by a 3.0L

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Germany’s KBA greenlights diesel emissions fix for 1.1M more VW Group cars; 2.5M in total

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million more Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Audi vehicles. million Group vehicles for the modification to correct the diesel emissions cheating issue. Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) has given the go-ahead for the modification of around 1.1 The KBA has thus so far approved more than 2.5

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Audi presents results of diesel assessment to KBA

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Following the conclusion of internal technical analyses of all its V TDI engines, Audi has passed on its essential findings to the German Federal Motor Vehicle Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, KBA) as the responsible authority. —Abraham Schot, interim CEO and Audi AG Board of Management Member for Sales and Marketing.

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Audi presents results of diesel assessment to KBA

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Following the conclusion of internal technical analyses of all its V TDI engines, Audi has passed on its essential findings to the German Federal Motor Vehicle Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, KBA) as the responsible authority. —Abraham Schot, interim CEO and Audi AG Board of Management Member for Sales and Marketing.

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Volkswagen: CO2 “irregularities” issue largely concluded; no unlawful changes

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In early November, the Volkswagen Group announced that during the course of its internal investigation into the diesel emission cheating issue, it had uncovered “irregularities” when determining type-approval CO 2 levels. These results do not apply to products and services from the Volkswagen Group of America or Volkswagen Canada.).

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