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Daimler recalls 3 million diesel cars over emissions

BERLIN, Germany – German luxury car maker Daimler, which is being investigated for alleged emissions cheating, announced Tuesday a voluntary recall of more than three million Mercedes-Benz diesel vehicles in Europe. It said it had already launched a service action for other models and that, “in order to effectively improve the emissions of additional model series, Daimler has now decided to extend the service action to include over three million Mercedes-Benz vehicles.” The Stuttgart-based company […]

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EU launches ‘Dieselgate’ case against Italy

BRUSSELS, Belgium  (AFP) — The European Union launched infringement proceedings against Italy on Wednesday for failing to adequately investigate emissions cheating allegations against automaker Fiat. The accusations involving the Italian auto giant come in the wake of the Volkswagen “dieselgate” scandal, revealed in 2015, that affected 11 million cars. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, says Italian authorities ignored the presence of so called “defeat devices” in Fiat autos that enable cars to minimize pollution levels […]

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VW ex-boss denies prior knowledge of pollution cheating

by Christina NEUHAUS Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – Former Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn said Thursday that he did not know the beleaguered German auto giant was engaging in systematic emissions cheating until shortly before the scam broke. Winterkorn told a parliamentary committee into the “dieselgate” scandal that “total clarity was and is the order of the day”, and that he was still trying to understand how the scandal could have happened. The 69-year-old resigned […]

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Volkswagen engineer indicted in US emissions case

Volkswagen engineer indicted in US emissions case NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – A Volkswagen engineer is expected to help the US pursue its criminal case against the German automaker after pleading guilty Friday to helping create the illegal emissions-cheating device installed on VW diesel cars. James Liang, 62, agreed to cooperate with US prosecutors developing a criminal case against Volkswagen, after he was indicted in Detroit federal court for his role developing the emissions “defeat […]

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Germany accuses Fiat of car emissions cheating

FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) – The German government has accused Fiat-Chrysler of incorporating emissions cheating technology into some vehicles, in a letter to the European Commission seen by AFP on Thursday. “From our point of view, evidence has been provided of the use of an illegal defeat device” in some diesel-powered Fiat-Chrysler vehicles, the letter from the German transport ministry reads. Germany launched an investigation into emissions cheating earlier this year after Volkswagen’s September 2015 admission […]

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