“Volkswagen needs to terminate the employment of everyone who approved – either explicitly or tacitly – the fraud”, said Cindy Schipani, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
Alongside Mueller’s appointment, the supervisory board also approved changes to the management structure – aimed, the company said, at scaling back complexity and strengthening brands and regions.
The Environmental Protection Agency told automakers on Friday that it will begin road tests of all new vehicle models and vehicles already on the road to examine emissions claims following the exposure of Volkswagen’s regulation-cheating scandal.
Last week it came to light that Volkswagen has admitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it used software in 482,000 of its diesel cars sold in the U.S.to trick emissions tests.
Eikhout, the Greens’ environmental policy leader, said it had been “painful for the EU” to watch USA regulators seize the initiative on emissions test manipulation.
VW has admitted to installing software on Volkswagen and Audi cars with four-cylinder diesel engines that switches on pollution controls when they are being tested.
Standard & Poor’s warned it may cut Volkswagen‘s credit rating over the pollution cheating scandal, as fellow rating agency Fitch did on Wednesday. “Clearly, when you look at his profile, he’s had a very Volkswagen-centric career”, says...
The software at the center of Volkswagen’s emissions scandal in the US was built into the automaker’s cars in Europe as well, Germany said Thursday, though it isn’t yet clear if it helped cheat tests as it did in the U.S.