Volkswagen popped up today to tell the world that it is about to announce a massive recall to address #dieselgate related issues on 11 million cars:
New Chief Executive Matthias Mueller said the German car maker would tell customers in the coming days they would need to have diesel vehicles with illegal software refitted, a move which some analysts have said could cost more than $6.5-billion.
I have to assume that we’re talking about a software update of some sort. But it is possible that there might be hardware involved too. The reason why I think that the latter might be possible is that the software was designed to do whatever was required to meet emission regulations, and that meant cutting horsepower and torque. Thus one has to wonder if Volkswagen can hit emission regulations without giving up horsepower and torque simply by changing the software. But that’s pure speculation on my part. We’ll have to see details of the actual recall when it arrives to see what their plan is.
In the meantime, I will leave you with this witty Tweet via @GregCarrasco:
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Volkswagen Tells Planet Earth That It Could Recall 11 Million Vehicles Because Of #Dieselgate
Volkswagen popped up today to tell the world that it is about to announce a massive recall to address #dieselgate related issues on 11 million cars:
New Chief Executive Matthias Mueller said the German car maker would tell customers in the coming days they would need to have diesel vehicles with illegal software refitted, a move which some analysts have said could cost more than $6.5-billion.
I have to assume that we’re talking about a software update of some sort. But it is possible that there might be hardware involved too. The reason why I think that the latter might be possible is that the software was designed to do whatever was required to meet emission regulations, and that meant cutting horsepower and torque. Thus one has to wonder if Volkswagen can hit emission regulations without giving up horsepower and torque simply by changing the software. But that’s pure speculation on my part. We’ll have to see details of the actual recall when it arrives to see what their plan is.
In the meantime, I will leave you with this witty Tweet via @GregCarrasco:
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