Saturday, September 26, 2015

EPA Beefing Up Emissions Tests in Wake of VW Scandal

VW vehicles wait to be shipped in Villers-Cotterets, Germany. The company installed software in its "clean diesel" vehicles to cheat on U.S. emissions tests.

     As everybody known, people are willing to buy Germany vehicle because they have better engineering technology. However, they develop their technology in wrong way.
     VW and Audi may ultimately face a penalty of up to $18 billion, or $37,500 per vehicle in violation. By comparison, Hyundai and Kia were penalized $300 million last year for overstating vehicles' fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions.
     We should worry about does any else companies also have the emission problem that we still didn't find out? Why they choose to cheating on the emission test?

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/25/epa-beefing-up-emissions-tests-in-wake-vw-audi-cheating-scandal

2 comments:

  1. I will share this in class, but I just read that failure to meet NOx standards within the auto industry kills 12,000 people per year. Not just Volkswagen, but this clearly is one of the more egregious cases.

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  2. I will share this in class, but I just read that failure to meet NOx standards within the auto industry kills 12,000 people per year. Not just Volkswagen, but this clearly is one of the more egregious cases.

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