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JULY 23, 2017

On Sunday, the BMW Group issued a strong rejection of German media reports charging that the company had colluded with Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche and Daimler on the design and pricing of diesel exhaust systems and that its diesel emission systems did not function properly.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Bosch says that its engineers have refined existing diesel technolgoies to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO x ) so significantly that they already comply with future limits. There’s a future for diesel. Today, we want to put a stop, once and for all, to the debate about the demise of diesel technology.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Testing of two popular Euro 6d-temp diesels by Ricardo, commissioned by the environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E), has found that the periodic regeneration of diesel particulate filters (DPFs) in the light-duty vehicles can generate spikes of particulate emissions of more than 1,000 times the normal rate.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

The law firm of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Ford and Bosch of knowingly installing emissions-cheating software devices in 2011-2017 Ford 250 and 350 Super Duty diesel pickup trucks, allowing the affected pickups to pollute at levels up to 50 times legal limits.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2020

Daimler AG and its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA LLC (MBUSA) have reached an agreement in principle with US authorities to settle civil and environmental claims regarding emission control systems of approximately 250,000 diesel passenger cars and vans in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2018

The Braunschweig, Germany public prosecutor issued an administrative order against Volkswagen AG in the context of the diesel crisis. billion) in total, consisting of the maximum penalty as legally provided for of €5 million and the disgorgement of economic benefits in the amount of €995 million.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Today, we have more details on Lucid Motors' upcoming electric car, pricing information on the 2017 Chevrolet Cruze diesel, and a legal scuffle between the European Union and member nations over emissions standards. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Lucid Motors' electric "executive sedan" will be unveiled later this month.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2017

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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JULY 14, 2018

The legal process began in 2015 and eventually involved more than a half million diesel VW, Audi and Porsche vehicles in the US. More than 80,000 of those cars are registered in California. The vehicles affected by the final modification are 3-liter, Generation 1.2

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MARCH 2, 2019

liter EcoBlue diesel engines, new 48V EcoBlue mild Hybrid powertrains; and driver assistance technologies including Active Park Assist in the enhanced Ford Tourneo Custom people-mover from mid-2019. Ford Europe will introduce more powerful and fuel-efficient 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2023

BASF has completed the carve-out of its mobile emissions catalysts and precious metal services businesses and named the separate legal entity BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS). As a standalone entity, ECMS operates its own legal entities, IT system landscape and services independently. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

IAV has developed a particularly closed-coupled diesel exhaust gas aftertreatment (EAT) system. Under the EU6 standard, diesel engines are still allowed to emit up to 80 mg NO x /km milligrams of nitrogen oxides per kilometer—not only under the legal framework in the cycle but also in respect of increasingly tighter RDE requirements.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Some AI embedded in the Revoy’s electronic control units does some number-crunching and the three-part truck, trailer, trailer combo then hauls off down the road, with the Revoy’s high-torque e-axle providing most of the power to accelerate the load and diesel power where it’s most efficient: on the highway. The best part, according to Revoy?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

In a statement issued this morning, Volkswagen AG said that new vehicles from the Volkswagen Group with EU 6 diesel engines currently available in the European Union comply with legal requirements and environmental standards. liter diesel engines—involving some eleven million vehicles worldwide. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 23, 2013

The staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) is holding a public meeting on 23 April in Sacramento to discuss regulatory concepts for establishing fuel requirements for alternative diesel fuels (ADF), including biodiesel, renewable diesel and other emerging diesel fuel substitutes.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

We observe the legal requirements in each country and fulfill all local testing requirements. BMW noted that in two studies carried out by the ICCT, results confirmed that the BMW X5 and 13 other BMW vehicles tested comply with the legal requirements concerning NO x emissions. This represents approx. 20,000 vehicles in the US in 2014.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 8, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency revealed Volkswagen's use of illegal "defeat device" software in its diesel cars. The software routines allowed cars to pass emissions tests while still producing up to 35 times the legal limits of nitrogen oxides in real-world driving, setting off a scandal that is still being dealt.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 27, 2023

Former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler used to be given a suspended sentence of 1 12 months and 9 months for fraud by way of negligence within the 2015 Volkswagen Staff diesel scandal, changing into the primary former VW board member to obtain this type of sentence. Stadler used to be fined 1.1 million euros ($1.2

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JUNE 12, 2015

A team of motorsport enthusiasts will attempt to drive from the Atlantic Coast of Florida to the Pacific Coast of California on just one tank of Neste NExBTL renewable diesel 21-26 June 2015. It can also reduce carbon dioxide emissions compared to conventional diesel by as much as 90% over its lifecycle. liter TDI diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

A US federal indictment is charging Martin Winterkorn, the former chairman of the management board of Volkswagen AG (VW), with conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with VW’s cheating on US diesel vehicle emissions requirements. The FBI and EPA Criminal Investigation Division are investigating the case.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 18, 2018

The latest source of all that stationary sheet metal is a storm of a different kind—the legal storm that ensued after Volkswagen agreed to buy back as many as 400,000 of its TDI diesels after courts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2019

The UPO dominantly consisted of hydrocarbons (saturated and unsaturated) and aromatics whose contents were predominantly affected by the STO/WEO mass ratio and were very close to the mixture proportions of jet fuel and light diesel. Approximately 5 × 10 6 tons of STs are discarded each year.

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MAY 22, 2018

billion) plan to reduce air pollution from road transport and diesel vehicles, set out in July last year. Ending the sale of new conventional diesel and gasoline cars and vans by 2040. in their emissions control system, and make tampering with an emissions control system a legal offense. billion (US$4.7-billion)

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APRIL 21, 2016

Volkswagen AG confirmed that it has reached an agreement in principle with the Department of Justice (Environmental Division); the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); and the California Air Resources Board (CARB); with the full involvement of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concerning the diesel emissions issue.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

As part of a response to a shareholder lawsuit in Germany alleging a violation of the company’s disclosure obligations under Germany’s capital markets law, Volkswagen AG has outlined the timeline and background events leading to the eruption of the diesel emissions scandal last fall. Timeline and events.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has renewed calls for scrapping the most polluting diesel cars and giving drivers cash incentives to switch to cleaner vehicles as part of the evidence he gave to the Environmental Audit Committee today. They now feel very hacked off now they’re told they are more polluting.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One of the many complications of the VW diesel emission scandal is that the 482,000 affected cars in the U.S. liter diesel engines to find out if they too include the "defeat device" software that allowed the. encompass three different types of engine and emission-control system.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

liter, diesel passenger cars manufactured for model years 2009-2016. liter diesel Volkswagens, Audis and Porsches sold in California. This decision affects about 16,000 3.0-liter CARB staff determined that the proposed recall plans submitted by the companies are incomplete and deficient in a number of areas.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

times over the legal NO x limit of 80 mg/km (hence up to 168 mg/km) until the end of 2020, and 43% more (up to 114 mg/km) with no set end date. The conformity factor was particularly useful for diesels. With these exemptions, cars were allowed to emit 2.1

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

CDTi diesel (Euro 6b) emits up to 17 times more NO x under certain driving situations than permitted by the Euro 6 limit value. In three additional tests under normal test conditions—and thus with non-rotating rear wheels—however, the NO x values were below the legal value limit of 80 mg/km in each case. Select raw NEDC test results.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2016

Another week brings more new stories on the diesel-emission cheating scandal that threatens to dig Volkswagen deeper into a ditch of its own making. Following reports in German newspapers late last week suggesting that the "defeat device" software was an "open secret" in VW's engine group, the company bit back yesterday.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

The affected vehicles are the 2013-2017 RAM 2500 with Cummins diesel (2WD, 4WD) and. 2013-2017 RAM 3500 with Cummins diesel (2WD, 4WD). The lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler is the latest in a series of automotive and emissions cases brought by Hagens Berman’s automotive legal team, which has tackled GM, Mercedes-Benz and VW as well.

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JUNE 30, 2015

On 26 June, CLP Motorsports’ Superlite Coupe crossed the finish line in Santa Monica, California, after driving across the USA on one tank of NEXBTL renewable diesel ( earlier post )—the first time that this type of trip was driven using a fuel that is made exclusively from bio-based raw materials. liter TDI diesel engine.

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APRIL 22, 2016

A German inquiry launched as a result of the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal has found that there is a large gap between homologated emissions values from lab testing and real-world driving results for all German manufacturers. For the report, KBA investigators checked emissions from 53 models of Euro 5 and Euro 6 diesels.

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MAY 13, 2022

Since that study, which was transparently designed to quantify the worst-case tire emissions under legal driving, Emissions Analytics has been testing and analyzing tire wear emissions in more detail across a wider range of driving conditions, and has performed a detailed chemical analysis of hundreds of new tires. x 10 11 #/km for diesels.

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APRIL 23, 2016

On Friday, Volkswagen AG announced that the Supervisory Board and the Management Board of Volkswagen have decided not to release the interim results of the investigation into the diesel emission cheating as originally planned. Around 450 interviews have also been conducted about the diesel matter; dozens of additional interviews are planned.

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