Car giant seems unable to cope with the basic rule of crisis management – to put all the cards on the table.
Comment. Volkswagen scam with the exhaust emissions are devastating to the Group’s name and reputation. Man caught like common cheats who cheated their customers, authorities and the public.
Volkswagen scam with the exhaust emissions are devastating to the Group’s name and reputation. Man caught like common cheats who cheated their customers, authorities and the public.
The group’s information has fallen slightly in the shadow of investigations, lawsuits, regulatory requirements and upset car buyers. It’s like a bomb struck the headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany.
First, it was quiet. Nothing came out. Concerned Europe? The world outside the US? VW joined. Only former Group CEO Martin Winterkorn Korn’s apologies were offered a news-hungry public.
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The revelations about the scale came instead from everywhere: for example, from the German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt could tell that more engines, markets and brands were concerned. Since then there has been something new every day.
All of this goes completely against what modern crisis management units! The experts’ advice is usually to put all the cards on the table so you do not reveal anything new JUGGLERY every day.
But the big car giant seems unable to cope.
Customers are asking themselves : covered my car? What should VW so, do with it? The authorities in different countries are asking: what are the real emission values from different brands, models and diesel engines?
No answer given. It’s quiet.
Still, it seems which completely unlikely that this story has been known in the US for at least 1.5 years, and exploded when the US Environmental Protection Agency demanded car company, would have had to grow up without that VW had a media strategy. But it seems to still be. This will be a catastrophe example of many institutions of higher educations how not to do in crisis management. Instead of good will tell you like it is and try to make it right which was fault continues misery.
Once the VW on Tuesday evening makes a move, it’s too small. The Group’s passenger car brands, Audi, Seat, Skoda, VW plus the transport vehicles should be addressed, a total of 11 million cars. How (?) Will at best be told in October.
There is not much to notice!
Should I venture at a guess so, VW too hierarchical to cope when the manager wavers and will not do. No one dares to come forward and say how to do it.
Still, now requires concentrated effort to cope with the mission to tell the truth and tell me what VW intends to do about it, by establishing a more concrete action plan. It is there somewhere that the promise of a new life as the world’s largest car manufacturer still alive.
Finally a guess to. Now that VW did not say anything, it is of course open to speculation. All the affected vehicles will receive new software. It probably gives driving characteristics that are not as fun as up to 40 times higher nitrogen oxide emissions. Suck on what it might mean for the second-hand value.
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Motor : Four-cylinder diesel .
Displacement : 1582 cc.
Power : 110 hp.
Torque : 260 Nm.
0-100 km / h : 11.5 seconds.
Top speed 188 km / h.
Power Train : front wheel drive manual.
Consumption : 4.1 liters per ten mile mixed driving.
CO2 : 108 grams / km.
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Hyundai i30 Combi is cheap, offers good space and boast a decent fuel economy.
Also, the right looks great.
However, there are some things you should consider before one decides for a used Hyundai i30.
The first generation of Hyundai i30 replaced the Elantra and presented in 2007. The model was changed, the new presented in Frankfurt in September 2011. There are now entitled plenty of newer used i30 on the Swedish market. And in many ways this could be a sensible begbilsval.
I30 combination looks petite on the outside – but inside the vehicle is actually quite nice spaces. Four adults have plenty of space in the car and there is plenty of space for mounting the rear-facing child seats. And ISOFIX attachments are standard.
The load area can not complain, 528 liters, the model shall swallow with the rear backrest folded up. It is enough for many grocery bags, there.
Loud
The comfort is okay, you are sitting pretty in the seats and suspension get approved. At higher speeds, the car is perceived as quite stable, but a lot of tire noise finds its way into the interior. On rough Swedish roads this may be a bit tiring. However, this is something you usually have to accept when buying a little cheaper model.
Several engine options available for the Hyundai i30. The most common is a 1.6-liter diesel engine of 110 horses. This is a pretty nice motor that is reasonably efficient and has enough power for most situations. The two other diesels on the 90 and 128 horses are much rarer. Two petrol engines of 1.4 and 1.6 liters are also – and this is the larger machine of 135 horses to be preferred, even if it is slightly thirstier.
Recalls
It has not only been tributes to meet Hyundai i30 in Sweden. When the magazine The art world was driving the car in its avoidance maneuver test car had steering problems which led to the 2370 i30 manufactured from October 2013 onwards were revoked. All cars should now have received a new software for the power steering and the problems should be solved according to Hyundai. If you want to be on the safe side, you can check with a Hyundai Workshop on a specific car received the update.
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Spaces. Hatchback version of the Hyundai i30 has more space than you might think. Here you get both the family and a lot of bags.
The design. You get a really nice car for the money.
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The acoustic comfort. It rumbles a lot when running motorway with the Hyundai i30, especially if you have big wheels of his car. This can get tiresome if you drive long distances at high speeds.
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There are not yet any large model specific problems reported in Sweden. If the car is manufactured after October 2013 it might be good to check that the received updated software to the control.
New data from the German media tells us that the supplier Bosch back in 2007 warned Volkswagen for using illegal software could fool exhaust tests. According to Bild am Sonntag has VW just over a week to explain how to meet emission standards – or else the authorities in the certification and stop sales.
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Over the weekend, scandal surrounding Volkswagen’s cheating with emission values increased. Already at the beginning of the scandal, many wondered how Bosch – which supplies motor and software to VW – were involved. Bosch was unaware, or was it so that maybe helped Volkswagen
According to German newspaper Bild am Sonntag have been found in documents dating all the way back to 2007 where Bosch warns Volkswagen to use the software. “Illegal” writes Bosch and underlines that the software is only intended to be used in tests. The documents also indicate that the use of this software was known high up in management.
Bild am Sonntag also claim that the State traffic authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) has demanded that Volkswagen later October 7 presents how to meet the current emission regulations. Unless Volkswagen has an acceptable explanation on how to proceed threatens KBA to withdraw certification for current models.
Another newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, during the weekend argued that an engineer by 2011 questioned the appropriateness of the engineered software in the engine control. The data come from Volkswagen’s internal audit.
Volkswagen declined to comment on what they term as “speculation from the media.”
VW Group’s new boss Matthias Müller has a dirty dirty linen to wash. But the question of liability will not be easy to manage, how far up the management was actually the knowledge of the exhaust cheat?
Statement from the Board of Volkswagen AG
The Board of Volkswagen discussed intensively the situation at its meeting yesterday (25 September). There is absolutely no excuse for the manipulation that has deeply shocked the Volkswagen. The company will turn over every stone until it reaches to the bottom of this and to bring those responsible to account and take the necessary measures. The first consequences in this regard, it was decided at the meeting yesterday:
first The Board has given the Chairman mandate to allow German and American lawyers objectively examine and make it clear manipulation of the emissions data in diesel engines.
second The Board’s executive committee will be responsible to coordinate and ensure all the necessary steps to find clarity until a suggested committee begins its work.
third With information currently available, the Board recommends immediate shutdowns of certain employees. The process has already begun.
the fourth Matthias Müller will lead Volkswagen Group as CEO of Volkswagen AG. He is the firm needs now. Matthias Müller is exactly the right man at the right time for a fresh start and to pursue clarification of the current crisis that has hit our business with determination and ability to draw correct conclusions. We value highly his critical and constructive approach.
5th. The Board of Directors took the decision to propose to the shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meeting 9 November 2015 to elect Hans Dieter Pötsch as member of the Board. The Board intends to select him as its chairman.
Berthold Huber, Vice Chairman of the Board, said: “Emissions manipulations is a moral and political disaster for Volkswagen. The illegal behavior of engineers and technicians who are involved in the development of our engines shocked Volkswagen as much as it shocked the public. We can only apologize and ask our customers, the public, authorities and our investors give us a chance to make things right. ” The Board of Directors today gave the assignment to a US law firm to assist it in further clarifications and to take the necessary measures.
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We have only seen the beginning of the scandal surrounding Volkswagen’s cheating!
Today ended the trial of triple murder in Uddevalla.
The prosecutor has demanded life for the brothers.
The prosecutor considers that the third man was not guilty of accessory to murder .
During the trial received a plaintiff’s a mug of chocolate thrown on him, and pandemonium broke out. Relatives and suspects shouted to each other and the police closed the courtroom.
The older brother’s defenders argue that the prosecution evidence is a series indicider, and want the indictment dismissed.
The younger brother’s defenders argue that his client was not involved in the crime, and want the indictment dismissed.
The news that Volkswagen cheated with the exhaust certification in the US hit like a bomb, but is actually old news. The technology of cheating has long been known and VW cheating was discovered in the summer of 2014. More automakers may have manipulated the numbers in a similar way and the evidence of this we see already in most major cities where NOx levels have increased dramatically.
In a lab environment to simulate the Most climate. But tests of exhaust emissions and fuel consumption of the diesel engines are made only at room temperature.
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Those of you who read Auto Motor & amp; sports regularly and follow the news on the site remember the series “Fuel Hoax” that we launched in autumn 2013. Then we showed how the automotive industry for several years been using ever more creative methods to improve fuel consumption figures and CO2 emissions (carbon dioxide). Something our readers and ordinary consumers also experienced – the official consumption figures do not match at all with the actual fuel consumption. It differs 30-50 percent, sometimes more.
When engineers move their testing methods of the “creative field” end up dangerously close to what no longer is to push the boundaries but downright cheating. Then it becomes very tempting to perhaps take one more step, from the gray area to the forbidden zone. And that leap has thus Volkswagen developed, with devastating consequences for the trust and image.
The news of the VW cheating in the United States – which came to be known as Diesel Gate – hit like a bomb last week, when this article was being written, the first rumors started swirling that top management must take the consequences. The reason for this is that the senior managers within the Volkswagen Group, including the board, in all probability known to cheat. The problem with the very high levels of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, NOx, became known in the summer of 2014 when the West Virginia University’s Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines, and Emissions (abbreviated “Cafee”) was asked by the US authorities to make emission tests.
Early in the year, began the tests and unlike previously drove cars on the road, not in a laboratory environment. The university’s personal thought at first that you did something wrong for Volkswagen’s diesel engines showed NOx values that were 15 to 35 times above what is allowed. Everything was cross-checked and the reference vehicle was used, but the measurements were correct.
Pretty soon directed suspicions against the software in the engine control. In no way could the car models in certain positions move in a “test mode” where the NOx values were adjusted down to the correct level. But in normal highway driving where NOx values thus considerably higher.
In a very skilfully calculated the software on their own when the car was tested and when it was run as usual. “Test mode” was activated when no steering angle during a specific period of time (the car is therefore still on a rolling road), as well as temperature and air pressure were within certain ranges (= lab environment).
How high up in the Volkswagen management, knowledge of the exhaust cheating? It was probably not a single engineer, who in the picture, who of his own accord made “improvements” in the software. The decision came from higher up, but how high?
in May 2014 being launched a formal investigation in the United States that would investigate whether fraud was intentionally performed. Volkswagen had to share the results and respond to such information. In December 2014 Volkswagen announced that it conducted a recall of nearly half a million diesel cars in the US to improve the software.
The authority of the California Air Resources Board, “CARB”, however, continued to control measuring diesel models from Volkswagen in spring 2015 . NOx values were exceeded yet, despite the changed software. CARB demanded answers from Volkswagen, answers, however, did not materialize, and authorities warned then that if no changes were made, several of VW’s diesel models are not approved for the model year 2016. Something that would mean that about 25 percent of Volkswagen’s sales disappeared. The state chose Volkswagen to allow the software to the engine management had a “test mode”, that is a deliberate cheat mode where the NOx values were lowered.
One this big and serious error would have very serious consequences for Volkswagen’s sales can not have been unknown to the lead in the VW Group. It has probably known since more than a year back. That CEO Martin Winterkorn on Sunday went to the media with the message “top priority” sounds a bit false, then he could hardly have been unaware of the problem before. Martin Winterkorn is an engineer in the ground and known to be the closest obsessed with technical details. He would not know the faulty software will be hard to explain away, and it will probably result that he must take the consequences of Diesel Gate.
On Tuesday, Volkswagen announced that total worldwide concerns eleven million cars ” faulty software. ” Where these cars are and how they are distributed, as well as how any measures should look like, is something that Volkswagen not gone into. The Board’s executive committee met on Tuesday evening to discuss the situation. The board will meet again on Wednesday and regular board meeting – with all 20 members – takes place on Friday.
Newer car models from VW that meet the EU6 exhaust emission standards (in most cases from model year 2015 onwards ) do not have the defective software. The motors are adapted to the stringent requirements with lower NOx emissions (180-80 mg / km), which means that in most cases equipped with AdBlue injection. By injecting a small amount of urea topics and use a more advanced catalytic technology it is possible to reduce exhaust emissions significantly, however, an additional cost for the consumer.
To see antipollution generally on diesel cars from model year 2015 onwards, those who pass the new EU6 emissions standard (available Also on some models that are a few years older). Directly after the turbo, the first catalyst purifies hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. An injector injects AdBlue liquid and then purified NOx in the second catalyst. Finally trapped particles in a filter where they sit until they are burned off at certain intervals. The container of AdBlue liquid usually hold enough to last between two visits to the workshop.
• You can read more about Diesel Gate at our collection side of Volkswagen’s diesel cheating.
Fuel Hoax Part 1: Consumption figures are a scam! Fuel Hoax, Part 2: How to optimize the fuel figures Fuel Hoax, Part 3: The figures get worse every year Fuel Hoax, Part 4: The cars have become dumsnåla Fuel Hoax Part 5 Diesel in winter – an environmental bomb Unique Numbers: How efficient is your car? Find out your model here automotive industry’s Tricks: How to lower the consumption Readers: Manufacturers cheat on consumption New EU report: “The automotive industry loopholes lowers the numbers”
Volkswagen’s press release on Tuesday
“Volkswagen AG HAS issued the Following Information:
> Volkswagen is working at full speed to Clarify irregularities Concerning a Particular software used in diesel engines. New vehicles from the Volkswagen Group with the EU 6 diesel engines currently available in the European Union Comply with Legal Requirements and environmental standards. The software in question does not Affect action, consumption or emissions. This is given clarity to customers and dealers.
Further internal investigations Conducted to date have established That the relevant engine management software is overpriced installed in other Volkswagen Group vehicles with diesel engines. For the Majority of These engines the software does not have any effect.
The discrepancies Relate to vehicles with Type EA 189 engines, Involving some eleven million vehicles worldwide. A Noticeable deviation between bench test results and actual road use was established Solely for this type of engine. Volkswagen is working intensely to Eliminate These deviations through Technical Measures. The company is there fore in contact with the relevant Authorities and the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA – Kraftfahrtbundesamt).
To cover the Necessary services Measures and Other Efforts to win back the trust of our customers, Volkswagen plans to set aside a commission of some 6.5 billion EUR-recognized in the profit and loss statement in the third quarter of the current fiscal year. Due to the Ongoing Investigations The Amounts Estimated May be subject to revaluation. Earnings targets for the Group for 2015 will ask Adjusted Accordingly.
Volkswagen does not tolerate any kind of violation of laws whatsoever. It is and remains the top priority of the Board of Management to win back lost trust and to avert damage to our customers. The Group will inform the public on the Further Progress of the investigations constantly and transparently. “
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I think there is the “test mode” in the software of more automakers.
Although Audi has counterfeit software in their vehicles. 2.1 million cars covered, according to Reuters.
Audi announced Monday that 2.1 million cars worldwide have been using the same software as Volkswagen to Cheating in US emissions tests, according to Reuters.
– Over 1.4 million Audi with the so-called EU-5 engines covered in Western Europe, of which 577 000 in Germany and almost 13,000 in the US, said a spokesman for Ingolstadt -based Audi.
The models covered are the A1, A3, A4, A5, TT, Q3 and Q5
Last week it was revealed Volkswagen to around 11 million cars of the Group’s brands worldwide around was covered by the emissions scandal.
Reuters also stated to the board in the scandal hit the car giant has been closed by their bosses for research and development that has been responsible for the Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche.
The German newspaper Bild reports that Volkswagen already warned eight years ago that emission cheat with the company’s diesel cars was illegal.
Picture has received a document from the company Bosch in 2007, which made the software that Volkswagen will have tampered to show better results in the emission tests.
Bosch should have warned car giant to break the law.
It is still unclear whether cars in Sweden are affected, according to TT.
In terms since the end of the car giant now lost nearly 40 percent of its market capitalization as a result of the scandal that erupted a week ago.
Car models drawn into the scandal emissions stopped now in Switzerland.
But if the same models in Sweden is still unclear.
– As soon as we have that information we will go out with it, said Marcus Thomas People, CIO at Volkswagen in Sweden.
Just over a week ago it was revealed that millions Volkswagen cars are equipped with software that displays a manipulated results in the emission tests. Cheating has been going on for seven years and involves several models of the German carmaker’s cars emit between 30 and 50 per cent more emissions than has been announced. The news quickly got big consequences.
The share plummeted and the German carmaker’s chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, resigned after two days. On Friday appointed Matthias Müller to his successor – and promised to restore confidence in the Automotive Group.
On Saturday, the state-media, including The Guardian and The Telegraph, that Switzerland stop the sales of Volkswagen cars equipped with the engineered software .
Several brands are involved
Thomas Rohrbach, a spokesman for the Swiss equivalent of the Swedish Transport Agency, according to The Telegraph that the sales suspension affects the cars with the so-called Euro 5 engine. Although models of Skoda, Seat and Audi subject.
Selling stop had the cars not yet sold or registered. They must also be equipped with the faulty software installed in some vehicles of the so-called Euro 5 model. It is unclear how many cars involved. In Switzerland there are 180,000 vehicles manufactured between 2009 and 2014 and are equipped with a Euro 5 engine, but these have thus already been sold and are not affected by the shutdown.
Notification of Sweden delayed
Where or how many cars with the engineered software sold in Sweden is still unclear. Volkswagen has been unable to give an answer to that question.
– As soon as we have that information we will go out with it, said Marcus Thomas People, CIO at Volkswagen in Sweden.
Why delay the announcement?
– It’s not that there is a single engine sold in one country, but it varies between models and production series. We really regret this whole issue but it is a chore to take out all the detail and it is extremely important that we have the right information when we go out with it, said Thomas People and emphasizes that the affected vehicles will be fixed free of charge.
The engine in newly Volkswagen cars are Euro 6 model and do not contain the engineered software, says Marcus Thomas People.
New data shows that while light trucks will be equipped with the engineered software.
On Friday came the news that the Porsche boss Mathias Muller becomes the VW Group’s new CEO.
Müller says he will do everything to win back public confidence, reports the AP.
We will overcome the crisis, said Müller at a press conference, according to AFP
According to the Board’s Müller right man at the right time to take the company out of the current crisis. Union president and board member Bernd Osterloh blamed the scandal on “a small group”.
A small group has inflicted huge damage now. We need a business environment where the problems are not hidden away, Osterloh said at the press conference.
It is not only Martin Winterkorn who have been forced to resign. Although development managers at Audi and Porsche, Wolfgang Hatz, Ulrich Hackenberg, have left their posts, as well as VW’s development manager Heinz-Jakob Neusser and American boss Michael Horn.
Recognized cheating
The news that Muller gets VW’s new CEO came just hours after new evidence that even light trucks should be equipped with the engineered software. Previously it has only been known that the cars covered by the scandal. It is still unclear which number or type of vehicles involved.
In Norway, the Economic Crime Authority investigate whether Volkswagen violated Norwegian law.
“The company has acknowledged widespread cheating. We now want to investigate if any crime has been committed in Norway and this fraud has an effect on cars imported, “said the authority in a statement.
It was on Thursday that it was confirmed that even cars in Europe covered by the environmental cheats originally disclosed in US. It is still unclear whether Norway, where VW sold about 20,000 diesel cars annually, is affected. In Sweden, the Prosecution would approve a similar measure. Then would such a case end up at the national drive against corruption, but today there is no such case.
At the same time, more and more countries to take action. French Environment Minister Segolen Royal has announced that VW cars in France to undergo testing to see if they have been fitted with the engineered software. The same applies to Switzerland and in Italy, the 1000 cars investigated, according to the country’s transport minister.
Large fines
In Sweden, it would be Transport Agency conducting the test but since these have already been implemented, it is currently not up to date with any new tests, according to the investigator Per Öhlund.
VW has previously acknowledged that a total of eleven million cars will be covered by the software that made it possible to improve the results of emission tests. In the US environmental authorities have already announced that the company risk a fine of about 150 billion Swedish kronor.
Approximately 2.8 million VW cars in Germany are equipped with the software, said the country’s Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt according to AFP.
On Friday announced the Swiss authorities that they face sales peak for the Volkswagen models to have been tampered with.
United Kingdom
Transport Minister has announced that in cooperation with car makers should examine the faulty software used.
Germany
Having decided to appoint a committee to investigate Volkswagen’s conduct and the Committee should also take part of documents from VW.
France
Should carry out tests to determine if the cars in France have been equipped with manipulated software similar to that of the United States.
Italy
Will carry out tests on 1000 cars. Has also decided to initiate an investigation into the VW and cheating.
South Korea
Having decided to investigate the 4000 to 5000 cars, including the Jetta, Golf and Audi A3.
The Netherlands
Lets German authorities conduct tests. No own tests are planned.
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The software for emission control which Volkswagen has used is not specific only for the German company but the technology may have been used by other automakers. It writes the news and analysis site Euro Intelligence on Tuesday.
Photo: AP Photo / David Zalubowski, File / TT
– We expect a growing scandal and an economic impact, writes Wolfgang Munchau on Twitter. Munchau manage Euro Intelligence and also a columnist for the Financial Times and Spiegel.
Euro Intelligence believes that the criminal investigation been launched in the US in which Volkswagen is accused of having manipulated the test of diesel emissions have the potential to spread to large parts of the automotive industry.
Volkswagen plummeted nearly 20 percent on Monday and so far today, the stock has continued to fall nearly 5 percent. Concern that the scandal will affect other automakers in Europe have received shares in several other automakers to lose. BMW drops 1.3 percent, Daimler is down 1.2 percent, while the French Peugeot lost 3.3 percent.
The software for emission control which Volkswagen has used is not specific only for the German company but the technology may have been used by other automakers. It writes the news and analysis site Euro Intelligence on Tuesday.
Photo: AP Photo / David Zalubowski, File / TT
– We expect a growing scandal and an economic impact, writes Wolfgang Munchau on Twitter. Munchau manage Euro Intelligence and also a columnist for the Financial Times and Spiegel.
Euro Intelligence believes that the criminal investigation been launched in the US in which Volkswagen is accused of having manipulated the test of diesel emissions have the potential to spread to large parts of the automotive industry.
Volkswagen plummeted nearly 20 percent on Monday and so far today, the stock has continued to fall nearly 5 percent. Concern that the scandal will affect other automakers in Europe have received shares in several other automakers to lose. BMW drops 1.3 percent, Daimler is down 1.2 percent, while the French Peugeot lost 3.3 percent.
The night of Wednesday published a video in which the Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn apologize for diesel cheat. Winterkorn swears to go to the root of the problem and points to the mistakes that “few have made” not to discredit all the other work of the Group. But how many actually knew the diesel cheat?
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In the video above, published by Volkswagen during the night of Wednesday, asking the CEO Martin Winterkorn apologized for the faulty software. He says among other things that he knows how dedicated and responsible employees are in the group and points out that the mistakes that “few have made” not to discredit all other work.
Martin Winterkorn says much the same thing as in the The first press release, namely that it will cooperate with authorities in the US and have full transparency. “Everything should be on the table” and it should be read as that we can expect anything, even a personal responsibility in terms of the board members resign or that Martin Winterkorn himself takes the ultimate responsibility and leaves its mission.
Those who know Martin Winterkorn know that he is completely obsessed with all the technical details and has a unique breadth in its longstanding knowledge. “A bit UNABLE TO LET THINGS ALONE” We have heard several times but at the same time, nobody is questioning the technical competence of Winterkorn.
How antipollution works and what EQUILIBRIUM made in relation to other technical solutions is of course well known for Winterkorn . Using a NOx trap instead of the more expensive SCR-treatment with AdBlue fluid may have been a way to bridge some years of technological development. But to deliberately cheat with programming to bring down fuel consumption is of course quite different.
Did Martin Winterkorn that cheating with software? Those who answer no to the question can argue that the CEO is just too experienced and smart to compromise the brand’s credibility. The stake is too high for the small profits.
to suggest that this knowledge must have been general spread is that the program code can hardly have been a secret for those who work with technology. But the test methods are well known and the risk of detection – because the cheating was very cleverly done – was small. Perhaps it was to totally convinced that no one would discover the cheating?
It remains to be seen how many there were who really knew the software was cheating until the low NOx emissions. So far we have only seen the beginning of diesel scandal and some observers argue that this can shake the Volkswagen foundation and might lead to such a strained economy to product development and the company’s future is at stake.
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I believe that the knowledge of the fraud was high up in VW’s management.
The cars that are approved for the Swedish market tested at a facility in Jordbro. But Transport Agency, which is responsible for the tests, believes that in the present situation is virtually impossible to detect the cheats that Volkswagen devoted itself.
The cars that are approved for the Swedish market tested at a facility in Jordbro. But Transport Agency, which is responsible for the tests, believes that in the present situation is virtually impossible to detect the cheats that Volkswagen devoted itself.
Before a car can be sold in Sweden to the type approved. Then examines, among other things, that the exhaust emissions are within the limits that apply, and it made the test facility AVL in Jordbro outside Stockholm.
It is independent lab which is linked to Transporstyrelsen and that car manufacturers make use of to get their vehicles type approved, much like at a vehicle inspection but with much more advanced tests.
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Transport Agency makes beyond that own, independent tests on cars when they run for a while in Sweden to check if emissions are at levels that the car is approved. Even when one uses test facility in Jordbro.
– The purpose is to see if the systems are affected by aging vehicles, and to some extent that they are not tampered with as VW has done. At the same time it is difficult to detect these kinds of things, I honestly do not know how it would go to, says Per Öhlund, investigator at the Swedish Transport Agency.
According to Per Öhlund it clear of the rules that it is forbidden to have the type of software that the automaker made use of, and that makes the car senses when tested.
Then set the engine in order to reduce emissions. When the car then leave the test facility is the engine electronics set so that the car becomes more potent and enjoyable driving performance compared to when it is tested.
– What comes out of the exhaust pipe under test is good. Since the parameters of that comfort and driveability are better, and then you get higher emissions, says Per Öhlund.
According to Per Öhlund can unveiling of VW cheat lead to improve and develop tests to detect this type of manipulation come.
– It’s very clever of the EPA (the US authorities) to discover this, they have managed to outwit the software in any way. In the forthcoming test program, we can take this into consideration, he said.
One of Volkswagen’s common diesel engines have a cheat mode that reduces emissions when the car test run in the laboratory.
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EA189 engine meet Euro 5 emission requirements. According to Volkswagen, no newer engines that meet the Euro 6 requirements, have the so-called “cheat mode.”
The revelation that Volkswagen has cheated with emissions of diesel cars has not escaped anyone. Volkswagen recognizes that as many as eleven million cars may have a special “cheat mode” that temporarily reduces emissions of nitrogen oxides when the vehicle emission testing. But in normal traffic emissions can be up to 40 times higher.
The scandal has become known as Diesel Gate.
engines as they apply Internal Code EA189. It is a 2.0-liter engine that has existed in many different versions of the Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Seat. Some of the most used versions with 140 and 170 horsepower.
This revelation, however, began in the US and where is the engine in the Golf, Jetta, Jetta Sportwagen, Beetle and the Audi A3 (model years 2009-2015) and in Passat (model year 2014-2015). Exactly what models and versions that may have the same type of software here in Europe is not entirely clear.
When “cheat engine” was replaced , Volkswagen sold 488,123 cars with EA189 engine in the USA under the name “Clean Diesel”. EA189 engine uses a “NOx-trap” which collects NOx, and uses a temporary excess fuel to convert the NOx to water and nitrogen.
The second approach to reducing NOx emissions, called SCR purification. It involves injecting a carefully balanced amount of urea fluid – or “AdBlue”, which was called in Europe – into the exhaust pipe. In the hot exhaust gas is converted to liquid ammonia that reacts with nitric oxide which is converted to water vapor and nitrogen. NOx reduction is very effective, some 90 per cent. The disadvantage is that the SCR purification more expensive diesel models and increases operating costs.
As the engines Volkswagen cheated by not using AdBlue to reduce NOx emissions chose one or some of the company to install the special “cheat mode” instead, until newer engines with AdBlue launched. If not NOx trap is emptied regularly seeping surplus out through the exhaust pipe and the biggest advantage is that you thus saving fuel. The driver experiences no difference and NOx levels are not labeled in any material way, the gases are both odorless and invisible, unless you have special measuring equipment.
When Volkswagen launched engine we are do have a “cheat mode” was described as clean and modern. In the press material for the Volkswagen Jetta from 2011 says that the motor has a so-called NOx trap that Volkswagen calls the storage catalytic converter.
“It guarantees that this TDI engine meets emissions requirements for all 50 states in the US,” wrote Volkswagen.
In the video below, published by Volkswagen during the night of Wednesday, asking the CEO Martin Winterkorn apologized for the faulty software. He says among other things that he knows how dedicated and responsible employees are in the group and points out that the mistakes that “few have made” not to discredit all other work. Remains to be seen how many there were who really knew the software was cheating until the low NOx emissions.
Here you can learn exactly how Volkswagen cheated on diesel emissions.
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I believe that sales of diesel cars will be affected by this revelation (= gas).
