Americans have accused bosses of Volkswagen of intended deception
New York, Maryland and Massachusetts have just submitted the claims to Volkswagen, having joined other 44th states.
The Attorney-General of New York Eric Schneiderman has declared that the program for round of norms on emissions of nitrogen oxides on diesels was used in Volkswagen concern longer, than that tries to present. Like, not only the retired Vinterkorn, but also Müller who has released him nowadays from a post of the head of group knew about a trick since a certain moment (the former chief of Porsche, and at the time of events — one of top managers of Audi).
Heads and engineers of VW hid everything till the last moment, even when the American regulators have begun to look for such program after a number of complaints to discrepancy of an exhaust — Bloomberg reports.
Experts of Audi in the 1999th have begun to create allegedly "chitersky" programs (they had several versions), have developed on diesels in Europe since 2004, and in the USA from the 2008th. They were adopted by VW and Porsche. Quite peaceful fight against unpleasant noise was an initial task. It was solved updating of the program of injection. But it has become clear: NOx has in exchange grown. Then have added check — the cunning program of "anti-sound" fills up if the wheel isn't mobile. And it DVS test conditions at the stand.
To disentangle all problems have, in particular, to Dieter Petch (left), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Volkswagen group and Board Chairman Matthias Mueller.
Schneiderman called the situation a conscious deep cover. The Germans deny the guilt of the first persons talking about the wrong formulation of the question and I assure you that cooperate fully with U.S. authorities to clarify all aspects of the scandal. They say, better to wait for the outcome of the investigation at the Federal level, not state level.
The company has dealt with corrections to the motors in the US and the EU. However, if the amendments to the "fours" was immediately taken, in respect of V6 still remained unclear. Regulators are not satisfied with some aspects of the plan.
In the US the group will have to pay for the "desligado" more than $15 billion, but not immediately, of course, and Europe. If the new data is confirmed, can pursue claims for large sums of money. And the total cost of the auto giant, including the feedback will be, according to the latest estimates, 18 billion euros. To handle the concern will not be easy. Nevertheless, there are encouraging moments. For example, according to preliminary data, during the first half of 2016, the profit of the group amounted to 7.5 billion euros against of 6.99 billion a year earlier (as it affected the growth of sales).
Players in the stock market are optimistic. With the beginning of the year to March, the share price of the group declined by 8%, but from April to now played almost all of this decline (+6.8 percent). Although compensation of failure of last September the firm is still far.
Executive Director of Volkswagen Group of America Hinrich Webkin to clarify the fate of diesels in the USA. If after all adjustments the authorities will allow their implementation, the diesel model will return to the programme for 2017-2019. Although such a fair share, before the scandal (more than 20% of sales), they will not be never. However, the group intends to focus on hybrids and electric cars. The latter, on the platform of the MEB, will be delivered to U.S. dealers in 2020. There is the fact that the 2019 standards exhaust emissions in the United States will be significantly strengthened (including nitrogen oxides). "To meet the standards, we clearly needed an alternative to diesel engines. Just because of the scandal, we started to work on it early," — said the publication Automotive news Hinrich.