The NGT in March had ordered Volkswagen to pay a fine of Rs 500 crore for causing damage to the environment by programming its diesel engines with cheat devices. In a relief to German car manufacturer Volkswagen, the Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear its plea against National Green Tribunal’s …
German prosecutors have opened an investigation into the former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn over allegations of market manipulation in relation to the company’s diesel emissions scandal. According to the state prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig, there was “sufficient concrete evidence” that Volkswagen had deliberately delayed informing shareholders of last year’s …
The European commission was warned by its own experts that a car maker was suspected of cheating emissions tests five years before the VW emissions scandal. A documents cache seen by the Guardian show that the commission’s in-house science service told it in 2010 that tests had uncovered what researchers …
Volkswagen AG will have an extra week to finalize a settlement with the U.S. government and owners of affected diesel-powered cars in its emissions cheating case after a federal judge delayed the deadline, citing the “highly technical nature” of the negotiations. A draft agreement will now have to be filed …
EU regulators proposed stricter tests on Wednesday on car fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions from late next year to plug loopholes highlighted by the Volkswagen emissions scandal. The draft EU executive proposal, which will go before the European Parliament and EU leaders, would introduce tougher testing procedures for new …
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) said on Wednesday it received regulatory approval to fix another 1.1 million cars, raising the number of VW models cleared for refitting to more than 2.5 million since the start of the year. Germany's motor vehicle authority KBA has approved fixes for VW brand models, VW commercial vehicles …
Germany on Tuesday demanded tougher rules on controlling diesel car pollution in Europe as it blamed auto manufacturers other than Volkswagen of using defeat devices to pass emission tests. German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told a meeting of his EU counterparts that a study of 50 diesel cars released in …
‘The Dirty Thirty’ report says regulators have yet to take action against carmakers Many of the most polluting diesel cars in Europe have yet to be fully investigated by regulators over their emissions levels, according to a report ahead of a meeting of EU transport ministers on the Volkswagen emissions …
Around 11 million vehicles globally have been fitted with the so called "defeat devices" Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, plans legal action against Volkswagen over the firm's emissions scandal. It said had been advised by its lawyers that the company's conduct "gives rise to legal claims under German …
In the aftermath of the Volkswagen scandal, new tests on diesel vehicles across models by government agencies in the UK, France and Germany have revealed that emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) in these automobiles were far higher than prescribed standards. The tests were conducted on Euro V and Euro …
The Indian arm of German auto major Volkswagen was questioned by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday about why it had not started the recall of the 3,23,700 vehicles for violation of emission norms as promised in December Meanwhile Volkswagen maintained that it had not installed “cheat device”, a …
Embattled automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. admitted Tuesday that its method of testing fuel efficiency, which does not comply with Japanese standards, has been in use since 1991, much longer than it had previously stated. The Tokyo-based automaker said it is investigating why its testing specialists have used the unapproved method …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sued Volkswagen Group of America, saying the U.S. arm of the German automaker falsely advertised more than a half million diesel vehicles as environmentally friendly when it knew they were emitting excess pollution. The FTC filed suit against the wholly owned Volkswagen AG …
Hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements and fines over unintended acceleration in Toyotas and faulty ignition switches in General Motors' vehicles provide a glimpse of what consumers and the government might get from Volkswagen for cheating on diesel emissions, legal scholars say. But the Volkswagen case comes with a …
All European Union nations except for France and Italy have replied to the European Commission's request for information from member states in connection with Volkswagen's emissions scandal, an EU source said on Tuesday. The European Commission, the EU executive, has asked all 28 EU countries to investigate breaches of vehicle …
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Profepa environmental protection agency on Monday fined German automaker Volkswagen’s local unit just over 168 million pesos (around $9 million) for selling 2016 model vehicles that lacked the corresponding environmental compliance certificates. Volkswagen Mexico was fined for importing and selling 45,494 Audi, Bentley, Porsche, Seat and …
The California Air Resources Board and Environmental Protection Agency said late on Tuesday that Volkswagen AG submitted a plan to fix 80,000 recalled 3.0 liter diesel SUVs and cars that emit up to nine times legally allowable pollution. After more than four months of lengthy talks and making little apparent …
The National Green Tribunal on Monday sought response from the central government and German automobile giant Volkswagen on a plea by Delhi residents seeking a ban on sale of its vehicles for alleged violation of emission norms. This decision was taken by a NGT bench headed by chairperson Justice (retd.) …
Honda Cars India on Thursday announced a recall of 90,210 units of its sedan City and multi-purpose vehicle Mobilio manufactured between December 2013 and July 2015 to replace the fuel return pipe. The recall will affect only the diesel variants of the two models. “There is a possibility that in …
The National Green Tribunal on Monday sought response from the central government and the German automobile firm Volkswagen on a plea seeking a ban on manufacture and sale of its vehicles in the country for allegedly flouting emission norms. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notice …
Aggrieved by the discovery that her father was a stage IV cancer patient, a Delhi-based school teacher has taken on German auto giant Volkswagen (VW), which already stands exposed for its diesel emission scandal. In a plea filed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Saloni Ailawadi has sought a ban …
