The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the discovery Friday, September 18 on two models, a 2012 Jetta and Passat in 2013, the presence of a sophisticated algorithm influencing emissions during emissions testing. Caradisiac an update on the situation.
Volkswagen has already set aside € 6 billion in anticipation Possible agreements and fines. AFP said that the group recruited Kenneth Feinberg, a prominent lawyer, to help her manage the class actions filed by many motorists in California.
Update Monday, December 14 10:30 – The 946 000 vehicles the Volkswagen group concerned with pollution control fraud will be recalled from France in February 2016. After a first letter sent to customers in November, a second will arrive in January to specify the technical measures for each type of engine. Will follow a final letter inviting guests to contact their dealership What to add an Internet platform and a hotline in place.
In an interview with Sunday newspaper (Issue 13/12), the boss of France Jacques Rivoal VW group explained that the group will operate “ a software update that will last half an hour to an hour, depending on model. We want to be positive this constraint with a package offered to the customer. Courtesy vehicle available, car security organs controlled exterior wash and interior “For corporate fleets, VW France is considering the possibility of the update directly on their website.
Update Wednesday, December 9 1 4 h 30 – The fraud emissions CO2 (cars actually emit more CO2 than indicated by their specifications, see Update November 4) that was added to the problems of software tricksters and should affect 800,000 vehicles, concerns only 9 models from VW, whose annual production volume totaled 36,000 copies . These findings resulted from an investigation conducted jointly by Volkswagen, the German Ministry of Transport and the automotive sector control authority (KBA). The gap corresponds to a maximum difference in consumption of 0.2 l / 100 km.
Models Volkswagen Key are:
Polo 1.0 TSI 95 hp DSG7
Scirocco 2.0 TDI 180 hp BVM6
Jetta 1.2 TSI 105 hp BVM6
Jetta 2.0 TDI 110 hp BVM5
Golf Cabriolet 2.0 TDI 110 hp BVM5
Golf 2.0 TDI 150 hp BVM6
Passat Alltrack 2.0 TSI 220 hp 4MOTION DSG7
Passat estate 2.0 TDI 240PS 4MOTION DSG7
Passat station wagon 1.4l TSI 150 hp BVM6
For these cars, new measures will be carried out before Christmas, and a fix will brought to the manufacturer’s catalogs.
Update Monday, December 7 11:15 – According to a survey by Automobilwoche (German automobile business press), 71.4% of Germans have a negative perception of Volkswagen (against 3.9% in September before the The case broke). For cons, the image of Audi seems not altered: only 2.1% of adverse opinions, almost the same value as of September (2.4%)
Update Friday, December 4 11:30 – Speaking Thursday before 20,000 employees of the VW group, the chairman of the works council said Bernd Osterloh no premium would be paid in 2016 – “ bonuses, or it is for everyone or for no one is “- in the presence of the new chief financial officer, Frank Witter, and Wolfgang Porsche, member of the carmaker’s supervisory board, which in turn ensured that the Porsche-Piech family would support employment within the group. VW had paid in March 2015 a premium of € 5,900 gross for each of its 200,000 German employees for the year 2014. The AFP said that the nine members of Volkswagen had shared a total compensation of 65 million, including 54 million bonus.
Thursday evening, we also learned that Matthias Müller, who replaced Martin Winterkorn late September at the head of the Volkswagen Group, was appointed head of Audi’s Supervisory Board.
In addition, to address the scandal fakers software, the VW Group has contracted a loan of 20 billion euros from 13 banks.
Update 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, December 2 – In a French market rose by 11.3% in November, the Volkswagen brand saw its sales volume increase of 4.4%, 3.9% of Audi, Skoda and Seat 5.1% from 7.9%. In Germany over the same period, Volkswagen sales were down 2% compared to November 2014. VW remains the leading brand in the country in terms of volume (21% of sales), far ahead of Mercedes (number 2 with 10%).
In addition, the Volkswagen Group will remind India 323 700 vehicles of VW, Skoda and Audi with diesel engine type EA 189 .
Update Tuesday 1 December 18h 00 – While large groups car present on the US market recovered in November sales levels not seen since 2001, Volkswagen’s results fell 24.7% in the United States. The manufacturer announced in effect have sold 23,882 vehicles last month, against 31,725 in November 2014. A fall that VW aims to explain in particular by curbing the marketing of the models 2 and 3 l diesel accused of equipped with software to distort the anti-pollution tests.
Update Tuesday, December 1 2:15 p.m. – In an interview with Le Figaro, Jacques Rivoal, CEO of Volkswagen France, breaks the silence for the first time since the case broke out on 20 September. After an apology on behalf of the French customers, it details the action plan planned for the coming months in order to alleviate concerns (“ 500 000 customers are connected to our website to see if their engine was concerned, which is the case for 130,000 of them “). Jacques Rivoal accurate and updated only take a half hour to the engine 2 liters (half of cases) and less than an hour for the 1.6. Finally, the boss of VW France sketch the new “pro-hybrid” brand orientation “ About Us by far the leaders in sales of rechargeable hybrid vehicles – GTE VW Golf and Audi A3 e-tron – with over 50% market share in France. We will continue to accelerate in this area. The group will invest 100 million euros more than expected in technologies related to electric mobility and alternative energy . “
This Tuesday also released figures registrations France in November: the increase reached 11.3% with a total of 150,339 registrations. For the Volkswagen Group (all brands), sales GRIMP ent 4.7%, so significantly less than the market (+ 1.2% for the Volkswagen brand alone).
Moreover, AFP tells us that Volkswagen fifty employees in Germany have confessed in the program of amnesty offered to employees to accelerate internal investigation into fixing scandal diesel engines (see Update 12 November 5:15 p.m.).
Update Monday November 30 20 h00 – About a possible compensation for European vehicle owners of the VW group, the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Industry Elzbieta Bienkowska states that “ While national authorities must assess in each case whether the rules of consumer protection in the EU are involved I think personally I have said very clearly last week to Mr. Müller [Matthias Müller, CEO of Volkswagen] that EU consumers should be treated in the same way as US customers . “
Update Thursday, November 26th 15.30 – The German daily Die Welt reveals today that “ Volkswagen new software problems, which have a direct influence on consumption ” (AFP) . Specifically, it would be a software that manages the recovery of kinetic energy in the battery. The information was confirmed by a spokesman for the manufacturer in Germany.
According to Die Welt , VW has recognized this new problem at a meeting with the commission of inquiry into the scandal of the faker software. AFP states that the Commission of Inquiry, established by the German Ministry of Transport and automotive authority KBA, suggested the manufacturer to prepare a recall of vehicles affected.
Update Thursday, November 26th 10:00 – While early November Volkswagen announced a compensation of $ 1,000 per car for 480,000 American motorists affected by cheating pollutant emissions (see Update 10 November), together with free assistance of three years in case failure, a spokesman for the group said that there would be no financial compensation for the owners of these vehicles in Germany.
Update Wednesday, November 25 1:45 p.m. – Volkswagen today presented the first technical solutions to put its cars equipped with the standards of a faker software. The operation should take less than an hour to the garage (presentation video below, in English) . On engines 1.6 TDI, a converter must be installed in the engine, in front of the air flow meter which he will optimize the functioning, for better combustion. The operation will last less than an hour, depending on the manufacturer. For 2 liter engines, there will be a simple update of the software, about half an hour of work. For the 1.2 engine, however, it was not until the end of the month to find the solution. This should consist of a software change. After passing the workshop, es engines should therefore fully meet to the anti-NOx regulations. For cons, the manufacturer remains the conservative moment on the consequences of these manipulations on power consumption and performance.
Update Tuesday, November 24 9:30 – The CEO of Volkswagen Mathias Müller announced that the group found a solution for over 90% of the vehicles concerned in Europe by fraud tricksters software “ The cost of Recall is bearable technically, financially and in terms of labor “said Mathias Müller before a thousand group executives gathered at the Wolfsburg headquarters. However, he did not specify the amount of the transaction. Volkswagen to present before the end of November the German authorities the solutions adopted for all vehicles concerned. They can be a simple software update on diesel engines 2 liters but require manipulation more Complex on engines 1.6.
Moreover, it appr end that setting American standards of Audi models with V6 3.0 TDI blocks will cost the builder nearly 50 million. This change of CO2 emissions control software provides A6, A7, A8, Q5 and Q7. In all, about 85,000 vehicles of the Audi, Volkswagen and Porsche (in this case 13 000 Cayenne) are concerned with United States .
Update Monday, November 23 11 am 00 – The European Commission finally gives up late December for Volkswagen to explain discharges CO2 undervalued 800,000 of its cars. The group was to deliver these data in Brussels on 19 November (see Update 12 November), but asked and got additional time due to the technical complexity of identifying offending patterns.
Update November 20 10:45 p.m. – The protection of the US Environmental Agency (EPA) announced Friday that Volkswagen and Audi have installed after 2009 devices for deceiving standards emissions to United States on diesel 3-liter V6.
In early November, the EPA said that cheating on pollutant emissions also concerned the block V6 3.0 TDI, which also team Audi and Porsche, but only for models produced from 2014 (see Update 3 . November 12:15)
Update on November 19 15.00 – AFP Volkswagen announced that France will begin to recall vehicles from “early 2016″ for a “correction software” engine following the cheating scandal Emission: “ The confidence of our customers has been tested. France Our responsibility is to be with our customers by doing everything work to regain that trust ” declares Jacques Rivoal, CEO of Volkswagen Group France. This reminder also concerns the Seat brand cars, Skoda and Audi equipped with diesel engines EA189 (4 injection cylinder diesel common rail produced between 2009 and 2015), or one million vehicles in France.
Update 17 November 18.00 – European sales of the Volkswagen brand stagnated in October (-0.2%), while the market has risen by 2.9 %. In the VW group, the decrease amounted to -2.6% and -11.4% at Skoda at Seat. As for Audi, with 4.1% growth in October, it is distanced by his rivals Mercedes (+ 10.8%) and BMW (+ 13.7%).
Update November 16 11:15 – In a statement, the Volkswagen Group delivered 8.26 million states that vehicles worldwide between January and October, down 1, 7% compared to the same period in 2014. In detail, we find that the decline mainly concerns the Volkswagen brand, in this case -4.7% (-5.3% in October and the first full month of sales after the scandal broke). The other group brands rose in the first ten months of the year: 1.7% for Skoda, Audi 3.6%, 4.1% for Seat, Porsche and 26.6% for .
Update November 12 5:15 p.m. – The Munich daily Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed Thursday that in an internal mail, Volkswagen announced that the proposed amnesty to employees to speed the investigation into the fixing scandal engines will expire on November 30, and not end of December as originally planned. This is encouraging employees to confess to clarify how 11 million diesel cars in the world were equipped with “test faker” software.
The automaker promises the offending employees who come out of their silence to be exempt from internal sanctions. Moreover, everything would be done to alleviate possible legal action. This is the program of “immunity” that allowed early November by the revelation of a second employee fraud, this one involving 800,000 vehicles with CO2 emissions far beyond the officially announced values.
Update 12 November 16h15 – The European Commissioner in charge of Action for the Arias Canete Miguel climate Monday, Nov. 9 sent a letter to the head of VW “ to request clarification “regarding CO2 emissions by hundreds of thousands of vehicles, higher than what he promised.
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