Volkswagen set to provide update on fix for diesel vehicles

[unhappycamper]

Source: Washington Post

SAN FRANCISCO — Attorneys for Volkswagen are expected to reveal where the company stands on a fix to bring nearly 600,000 diesel cars into compliance following an emissions cheating scandal.

Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer is scheduled to get an update from the company’s attorneys about its remediation efforts at a status conference on Thursday.

Breyer told Volkswagen attorney Robert Giuffra last month that he wanted to know by Thursday whether Volkswagen had come up with a fix for the cars that was technologically feasible and acceptable to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He warned of consequences if Volkswagen didn’t act quickly.

Volkswagen admitted in September that it intentionally defeated emissions tests and put dirty vehicles on the road. The cheating allowed cars to pass laboratory emissions tests while spewing levels of harmful nitrogen oxide at up to 40 times the level allowed when operating on real roads.



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[Chakab]

1. Nothing in the article about engine performance if cars are forced to run in low emissions mode

full-time.

From what I've read on some automotive sites, it seems that people who have tuned these cars to run in "EPA mode" on their own have found that the amount of horsepower and torque produced by the engine is substantially reduced. The cars are also less responsive and very unpleasant to drive.

If true, this fix isn't going to change the fact that VW Group is going to get taken to the cleaners in court.

[chapdrum]

2. If humanity takes climate change seriously,

this company should be shut down. Period. (If there is a government that has actual authority to enforce such an act.)

A dreaded government should ideally have the money to find jobs for displaced workers, and to create training programs for those with transferable skills to related sectors.