Volkswagen and the US authorities have negotiated a compromise to resolve the gas crisis in the United States shortly before the expiry of an ultimatum. Corresponding vertices provided the parties to the relevant US Judge Charles Breyer at a hearing on Thursday for examination. Meanwhile advised other automakers in the view: The US traffic supervisory requires the manipulation confession more information from Mitsubishi. And the US Department of Justice has Daimler asked to examine the occurrence of emission values, as the company announced at night on Friday.
The statement follows on class actions by US car owners who accuse the Swabians excess emission values. Daimler wants to fully cooperate with the US authorities by its own account. Any evidence of violations of the rules will “pursue vigorously and the necessary actions provided of course meet” the carmaker.
Daimler told to keep the recent US class action for alleged excessive exhaust emissions unfounded. The company wanted to put on the other hand with all legal means to resist. The owner of a Mercedes model with BlueTec diesel engine criticizes the carmaker, the emission of toxic nitrogen oxide overstepping at temperatures below ten degrees, the limit values in the US by up to 65 times. The action brought before a district court in Illinois was filed by the law firm Hagens Berman who already VW has sued in the US for excessive emissions.
“Substantial compensation” of Volkswagen
The basic agreement with VW foresees “substantial compensation” for affected by the manipulation of the exhaust emissions car owners, as Federal judge Breyer told. Also repurchases of vehicles are provided. The details have yet to be negotiated. In addition to the compensation, the car owner will have the option, according to the judge, their cars either convert or leave repurchase of Volkswagen. Who his car only leased, may terminate the lease contract prematurely. In addition, the Group is to establish a fund for environmental protection.
Even before the hearing there were reports of a possible agreement. So had the “World” reported citing negotiating circles, each US holder of a VW model that called fraud software is equipped with the “defeat device” should receive US $ 5,000 (well 4400 euros) in compensation. but also circulating other sums. From VW, there were initially no opinion.
VW controls on the largest loss in the company’s history to
The VW group is for information of the German Press Agency because of the exhaust scandal in his Record 2015 about 16.4 billion euros. Thus, the buffer for the previously estimated cost of the diesel crisis rises already made provisions in the third quarter again by almost 10 billion euros, as the dpa learned in the early hours of Friday.
With the provisions in tens of billions controls Europe’s largest carmaker at the greatest loss in the history of the Group. In 1993, it had recently been a net loss 1.94 billion marks, or around one billion euros. Further losses in the 1980s and 1970s were far lower. Official Key data for financial statement are for Friday morning expected when the supervisory board meets.
Consumer advocates call for repurchase deal for German customers
Consumer advocates demand, meanwhile, that Volkswagen also its German customers to buy back manipulated diesel cars offering. “That would be a good deal and a obliging solution that would do the VW image well”, said the head of the Federation of Consumer Organisations (VZBV), Klaus Müller, the Tagesspiegel.
However, customers could only require the value, not the original price, Müller points out. Customers who want to keep their car, VW should alternatively provide an indemnity to compensate for the foreseeable consumption or performance limitations, proposes the highest German consumer protection agency. “We kept an amount of 1,000 euros to be appropriate.”
The fact that the German customer to US consumers at a disadvantage, is the opinion of Muller’s also lack of political pressure in Germany. VW had his promise that cars retool so that they comply with the German environmental regulations, without consuming more fuel, or losing power, not previously redeemed.
For the Passat the timetable for the conversion has since been postponed several times. “The delay is enormous,” criticized Müller. “Would Transport Minister Dobrindt and Kraftfahrtbundesamt bang on the table, we would certainly become available.”
the supervisory authority EPA would in the US make consumer protection at their core concern, unlike the Federal motor Transport Authority. Even that was a reason why the situation of the Volkswagen customers in the US and Germany yawning so enormously apart. “In Dobrindt and Kraftfahrtbundesamt such pressure can not be determined,” said Müller
UK provides standard deviations at all the leading car manufacturers firmly
While VW and -. As now known – Mitsubishi cars have actively manipulated are other producers suspected of having used a legal loophole to improve their values. From a certain outside temperature emission control is turned off to save the engine. Thus, the exhaust gas values in normal operation, however, are higher than indicated. According to research of the whole VZBV “absurd” dimensions have assumed. “If from a temperature of under 17 degrees, as well at Opel, the engine protection takes precedence over health, then were off about in Berlin on 296 days a year of environmental protection in the models,” Müller said.
Britain has found deviations from the norm in an investigation of emission values for diesel cars. In road tests of 37 car models of all leading manufacturers specified limits were exceeded for nitrogen oxides in part many times, said the Ministry of Transport in London. The company would not violate any laws, since at present the results of laboratory tests are decisive alone. As a consequence of the “Diesel gate” affair to the UK from 2017 mandatory road tests are introduced.
However, cheating software is only at Volkswagen been used. In none of the other tested manufacturers there were indications of manipulation software.
In France and Peugeot was targeted by the authorities. The group on Thursday confirmed raids at several locations. The vehicles of the group met in all countries where it is active, the legal requirements, it said in a statement. Peugeot working fully with investigators together. A Peugeot officials later spoke of raids in four research and development centers. There are offices sealed and floppy disk drives and computer confiscated. ( with dpa, AFP, rtr )
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