If you have a Volkswagen diesel vehicle and you love the fact that you get lots of torque, great fuel economy, and less emissions, you might have to rethink the last part because Volkswagen is being accused by US regulators on having software that cheats on emissions tests:
The authorities ordered VW to recall 482,000 cars because of the use of so-called defeat devices — which use software to detect when the car is being tested and runs treatments to reduce nitrogen oxides. Once out on the road, the cars were discovered to produce pollutants up to 40 times the legal limits.
Lovely. Affected models include the VW Passat, Beetle and Audi A3 among others. VW has apologized for this and has halted sales of diesel cars. Not to mention removing all references to diesel products from their website. Though you can find what was removed via Google Cache where the company said this among other things:
Today’s diesel fuel is cleaner than ever. It goes by the name ULSD – Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel. Cleaner than gasoline and odourless too, when you combine its cleanliness with the clean technology integrated into the TDI Clean Diesel you’ve got an environmental idol. In fact, TDI Clean Diesels produce 90% less sooty emissions than diesel engines of old.
Clearly that’s not true. Now I could say all sorts of things about how evil VW is, and how they will deserve whatever punishment they’re about to get from the US Government. But I think that I would be focusing on the wrong thing. The question that I should be asking is how many other car companies are doing something like this?
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Volkswagen Caught Using Software To Cheat On Emissions Tests
If you have a Volkswagen diesel vehicle and you love the fact that you get lots of torque, great fuel economy, and less emissions, you might have to rethink the last part because Volkswagen is being accused by US regulators on having software that cheats on emissions tests:
The authorities ordered VW to recall 482,000 cars because of the use of so-called defeat devices — which use software to detect when the car is being tested and runs treatments to reduce nitrogen oxides. Once out on the road, the cars were discovered to produce pollutants up to 40 times the legal limits.
Lovely. Affected models include the VW Passat, Beetle and Audi A3 among others. VW has apologized for this and has halted sales of diesel cars. Not to mention removing all references to diesel products from their website. Though you can find what was removed via Google Cache where the company said this among other things:
Today’s diesel fuel is cleaner than ever. It goes by the name ULSD – Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel. Cleaner than gasoline and odourless too, when you combine its cleanliness with the clean technology integrated into the TDI Clean Diesel you’ve got an environmental idol. In fact, TDI Clean Diesels produce 90% less sooty emissions than diesel engines of old.
Clearly that’s not true. Now I could say all sorts of things about how evil VW is, and how they will deserve whatever punishment they’re about to get from the US Government. But I think that I would be focusing on the wrong thing. The question that I should be asking is how many other car companies are doing something like this?
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