Volkswagen correct exhaust all its cars in Europe for 2016

The new CEO of the Volkswagen Group Matthias Mueller [Matthias Müller] told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that the large-scale review of European cars equipped with diesel engines Volkswagen, will begin in January 2016. To correct all the cars the company plans by the end of next year.

Reviewed car linked to international scandal on the grounds of fraud with the test results of two-liter diesel engine Volkswagen 2.0 TDi. In an effort to keep the manufacturer's title of "the most economical engine", the company went to the modification of the car, allowing cheating testbeds on which to measure the content of the exhaust emissions. As a result of their content in the exhaust of a few tens of times larger than stated.

Once this information became available to the general public, the general director of the group resigned, and the company lost more than $ 25 billion stock market value. Review and modifications of vehicles (as it turned out to deceive the testbeds modification of engines is not limited only to change the software on-board computer) can, according to some estimates, cost the company $ 87 billion.

US regulators, because of which was discovered this fraud, are concerned that while Mueller said nothing about the recall and repair of vehicles sold in the United States. Of the 11 million cars around the world that need to be corrected, on the roads of North America, go about 500 thousand.

Mueller told the newspaper that due to unforeseen expenses the board has frozen all non-core investments, and that the crisis provided an opportunity for the company to review and evaluate existing structures Volkswagen. It is unclear what state the company will be able to get out of this crisis, but a new director is optimistic about the future and confident that his company does not need a "revolution" and "evolution" in order to regain the trust of customers. He also promised that the new engines will begin to work with adjusted leaves the factory in October .

Source: geektimes.ru/post/263588/