US Regulators Reject ‘Incomplete’ VW Fix Plan

It sent VW a confidential letter detailing its objections.

The California Air Resources Board said the recall plan for vehicles including the Beetle and Jetta did not meet its standards and was “unacceptable”.

CARB’s response comes a week after the U.S. Justice Department filed a suit against VW for violating federal clean air laws and attempting to deceive consumers and regulators about the vehicles’ actual performance.

“It’s obvious the EPA and CARB are seeking a very specific and comprehensive resolution plan”, he said.

“Since then, Volkswagen has had constructive discussions with CARB, including last week when we discussed a framework”, Volkswagen’s statement said.

“Mr. Mueller’s comments are disturbing, especially in light of the company’s continued lack of cooperation with our investigation, and they underscore the importance of our inquiry as well as the investigations launched by other regulators”, Jepson said in a statement Tuesday. It also said the fix was not fast enough.

The California Air Resources Board and Environmental Protection Agencyrejected the German automaker’s proposed solution for emissions excesses in its 2.0-liter engines Tuesday, saying the submitted recall plan contains gaps and lacks sufficient detail.

The vehicle maker said in a statement that it was in talks to find a solution, and said the rejection addressed the initial recall plans submitted to California in December.

The remarks, coupled with the time it has taken Mueller to visit the United States since being made CEO in September, have raised fresh questions over VW’s handling of the crisis. VW’s submission for a fix for its 3.0-liter diesel engines is due to CARB on February 2. The company has thus far denied findings by USA regulators that another so-called “defeat device” was also included in a smaller number of diesel vehicles with 3.0-litre engines, including some sold under the VW-owned Audi and Porsche brands.

On January 4, the USA government sued Volkswagen for installing the defeat devices on its diesel cars in the Untied States between 2009 and 2015.

“We feel personally responsible for keeping our promises to the American people about the benefits that our (emissions) standards are going to create for our society and everyone who breathes in it”, Grundler said.

“We made a priority decision to focus on heavy-duty diesel trucks at the time, and that’s why we didn’t catch it”, he said. “We could discuss buybacks with them”.

Volkswagen may end up buying back tens of thousands of diesel-engined cars in the U.S., Bloomberg reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

To simply put it, the German carmaker was unable to say whether the fix will have an effect on the driving dynamics and the mileage of the vehicle and this the reason why the fix war rejected.