California to Begin Testing VW Diesel Fixes
The California Air Resources Board tells Reuters it will soon begin testing an array of updates Volkswagen AG says could enable three generations of its 2-liter diesel engines in the U.S. to meet emission standards.
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The California Air Resources Board tells Reuters it will soon begin testing an array of updates Volkswagen AG says could enable three generations of its 2-liter diesel engines in the U.S. to meet emission standards.
The 475,000 targeted diesels all are equipped with software VW admits was developed to evade pollution limits. The company is obliged under a settlement last month with CARB, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Dept. of Justice to either bring the diesels into regulatory compliance or buy back the vehicles, which were sold between 2009 and this year.
Fixing the engines would be far less costly than buying back entire cars and could significantly reduce the potential $10 billion cost of that portion of the $14.7 billion settlement. In January CARB rejected as inadequate VW’s previous scheme to bring the diesels into compliance.
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