CO2 emissions deception by VW Group gets bigger. Much bigger

To sum up, more than eleven million Volkswagen and Audi vehicles equipped with 2.0 TDi and 1.4 TDi engines were fitted with software that could detect when the auto was being emissions tested. The company has recently been found to have installed the devices on cars marketed under its Audi and Porsche brands.

Acceptance of the offer will in no way prohibit the vehicle owners from taking part in any class-action or individual suit against the company, or exclude them from any future compensation.

It continues, “Over the past several weeks, we’ve apologized to you, our loyal customers, about the 2.0L VW emissions issue”.

We’re almost two months into the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal, and thanks to the internet (not to mention Planet Earth’s 24-hour news cycle), the story of what went wrong and what Volkswagen is doing to fix it is more complicated than ever.

The so-called defeat devices turn on pollution controls when the vehicle is undergoing testing, and off when it is back on the road, allowing it to spew out harmful levels of nitrogen oxide.

Both CARB and the ICCT denied they were tipped off specifically about Volkswagen, however.

Eligible customers must have owned their Volkswagen for more than 90 days and the offer is also available to family members living at the same address as shown on the logbook.

German automaker Volkswagen was fined 50 million reais ($13.1 million) by the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) for modifying vehicles to falsely pass environmental regulations, the government announced on Thursday.

Under the whistle-blower program, approved by VW’s top management, workers who get in touch with internal investigators no later than November 30 are to be exempt from dismissals and damage claims, according to a letter from Volkswagen brand chief Herbert Diess to staff seen by reporters on Thursday. Volkswagen lost 1.67 billion euros ($1.83 billion) in the third quarter, due largely to recall costs, and it warned that 2015 operating profit would fall significantly.

Volkswagen has not acknowledged any impropriety, although it did stop sales of all affected models.

The fraud became public last September, after the ICCT notified United States authorities that there was something fishy about the test results of Volkswagen.