Volkswagen Emissions Scandal Update: Company Admits 800000 More Vehicles Have

New testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has discovered the “defeat device” software in another 10,000 diesel luxury vehicles sold under the VW, Audi and Porsche brands.

Worldwide, VW says, as many as 11 million of its vehicles will need to be recalled and refitted with appropriate software.

The software gave the diesel engines the capability to rig emissions tests. Volkswagen has denied that claim, but over the past two days halted sales in the United States and Canada of the models involved: the Volkswagen Touareg, Porsche Cayenne, and the Audi A6, A7, A8, Q5 and Q7.

In a statement, Porsche said it has “decided to voluntarily discontinue sales of model-year 2014 through 2016 Cayenne Diesel vehicles until further notice”, and that the company is “working intensively to resolve this matter as soon as possible”.

“VW is leaving us all speechless”, said Arndt Ellinghorst, a London-based analyst with Evercore ISI.

Volkswagen’s 2-liter diesel engines, is offered is various of mid-high quality cars such as the gold and the Jetta were already pulled away from stocks in the USA, the company in Germany announced that cars can be resold now, but we are not seeing dealers stocks raisin back.

The German government will test all current models sold under the VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat brands – with both diesel and petrol engines – for both types of emissions.

On Tuesday, the company admitted that an internal investigation had revealed that carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption were understated during standards tests on about 800,000 cars.

Amid concerns over the escalating costs, the German carmaker’s ordinary shares slid 9.5 percent.

Meanwhile, Volkswagen is recalling almost 92,000 cars in the U.S.to fix mechanical problems that can knock out the power-assisted brakes.

VW at first disputed the EPA report and said it had no intention to suspend sales, but quickly changed its mind.

Tackling CO2 is becoming a rising priority in many countries, especially in Europe, where cars are often taxed according to their carbon emissions.

The EPA has also been trying to find out more about separate emissions-control device installed in additional 2016 diesel-powered Volkswagen vehicles.

Germany reportedly plans to retest all Volkswagen models to determine their actual emissions levels as the automaker grapples with a global scandal over how it masked carbon-dioxide emissions from millions of its cars.