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Volkswagen confirms EA288 diesel engines designed for EU5 and EU6 not affected by defeat device software

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Consequently, new vehicles of the Volkswagen Group offered within the European Union with those engines comply with legal requirements and environmental standards. Volkswagen Group had earlier confirmed that new EU6-compliant vehicles offered within the European Union fulfill all legal requirements and environmental standards.

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The Dutch Tax Authority Was Felled by AI—What Comes Next?

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“The government had more faith in its flawed algorithm than in its own citizens, and the civil servants working on the files simply divested themselves of moral and legal responsibility by pointing to the algorithm,” says Nathalie Smuha , a technology legal scholar at KU Leuven in Belgium.

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EU Likely to Miss 2010 Air Pollutant Limits; NOx the Toughest

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A small group of Member States anticipates missing two or more of their legally-binding emission ceilings. Others, such as Ireland, Austria and Belgium, are projected to miss their limits by as much as up to 60%.

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Six automated truck platoons to compete in European Truck Platooning Challenge

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Scania will leave from Södertalje, south of Stockholm, driving through Sweden, Denmark and Germany to Maasvlakte II in the Port of Rotterdam, making a stop in Zolder, Belgium and in Zwolle, Netherlands. IVECO will depart from Brussels and DAF from their production location in Westerlo, Belgium.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Well be providing more information about this in the coming months. As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 4: Chinese-Assembled Vehicles Will Not Be Eligible for Tax Credit

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Or perhaps assembly is shifted from China to Volvo’s plants in Sweden and Belgium for the European market and then imported into the US. And Geely-owned Volvo and Polestar may decide to shift assembly of some vehicles from China to the Volvo factory in Ridgeville, South Carolina for example.