Korea confirms Volkswagen emissions rigging

The fallout from Volkswagen’s emissions-rigging has taken the jobs of two more engineers now. The fine came from the Environmental ministry of South Korea.

German auto giant Volkswagen was found to have faked emission results of some of its diesel models sold in South Korea, the environment ministry said Thursday.

There was no immediate comment by the VW group on the CARB order.

Audi has said it failed to notify authorities in the United States of three so-called auxiliary emissions control devices (AECD) in luxury models, one of which is classified there as a banned “defeat device”. He also added it had not yet determined whether Volkswagen models with the newer Euro 6 “EA288” engine had cheated on emission tests. “And then they said, ‘We have to assume that in the U.S. part of the software that controls the [engine] heating function can probably be considered a defeat device”. Emissions discharged by the Tiguan were 1.38 grams per kilometer, which exceeded the standard of 0.044 grams per kilometer by 31 times. The vehicles to be recalled contain the diesel engines which produce emissions greater than allowed, according to Reuters. It was programmed not to do that during lab tests. But it said it could not determine whether Euro 5 and Euro 6 vehicles with the newer EA 288 diesel engine were similarly equipped, and it called for further investigation.

Volkswagen has presented its solutions to diesel engines affected by the Carbon dioxide emissions scandal to the Federal Motor Transport Authority in Germany ahead of a planned recall in January.

Based on the approach of the Volkswagen brand, the Group’s other brands – Audi, Seat, Skoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles – are also planning corresponding measures for their affected vehicles.

The government wants all the cars fixed for the sake of air quality.

“It sits largely at odds with their (VW Australia’s) apology and the public PR position of contrition and doing everything they can to do the right thing by the customers”, class actions principal at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, Jason Geisker said outside court. Those investigations will be completed by April, the ministry said. “It is too early to give exact schedules, but it could be early next year”.

Volkswagen has until December 17 to decide if it will pay any compensation.