Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Volkswagen denies any faker software on its diesel engines … 3 – The Obs

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The German automotive group, Volkswagen denied Monday the existence of software to skew the results of pollution tests on its V6 diesel engine three liters, shortly after charges in the sense of the Environmental Protection Agency of the US (EPA).

“Volkswagen underlines that no program has been installed on its three-liter V6 diesel aggregates to modify inappropriately” emission control testing, said in a statement, the group enmeshed in a scandal faker software its two-liter diesel engines.

The manufacturer marks the 12 admitted in September that diesel engines eleven million vehicles worldwide were equipped with software capable of distorting the results of emission tests.

If until now, the US investigation concerned Volkswagen diesel engines of two liters, EPA on Monday accused the manufacturer of fakers have installed software in the United States on diesel engines more powerful, three-liter, fitted to Audi and Porsche models.

According to the EPA, VW’s software tricksters and have also been installed on engines three-liter engine fitted to Audi A6 Quattro models A7 Quattro A8 and A8L, Q5 and Porsche Cayenne and Volkswagen Touareg.

The affected engines were mounted on models produced from 2014 to 2016, the US agency says.

The scandal updated in September has already translated for Volkswagen by the departure of his boss fall on background of its market capitalization

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