Except it wasn’t a miracle, and it didn’t eliminate emissions. What Volkswagen had done is sneak something called a “defeat device” into its TDIs. The engines pumped out toxic levels of NOx — as much as 40 times the amount allowed —when the car’s software recognized it was being tested by an environmental agency, such America’s EPA. Then it would dramatically cut their output to meet the maximum permitted. In other words, it was deliberate, planned, and computer-coded cheating.
In this October 13, 2015 file photo, a Volkswagen Touareg diesel is tested in the Environmental Protection Agency’s cold temperature test facility in Ann Arbor, MichiganAnd that’s where that recent lawsuit win comes in. According to reports fromthat the German Federal Transport Authority’s approval of the software fix was premature. That, in fact, even the supposed cure — that updated software — still pumped out too many emissions.
It is this last that is, in fact, the crux of this story. That Volkswagen may have taken yet another shortcut in rectifying the NOx problem is hardly surprising. According to the company, the temperature controls are necessary to prevent damage to the engines. More troubling, at least according to Deutsche Umwelthilfe’s lawyers, is that Germany’s national automotive authority, the KBA, authorized them. And, in fact, the NGO’s lawsuit is not against Volkswagen, but the KBA instead.
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