"The Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board claim VW deliberately programmed almost 500,000 diesel cars to emit fewer pollutants under test conditions than during actual use."
"The US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday charged Volkswagen with deliberately employing software designed to bypass emission standards in almost half a million cars and ordered the company to fix its non-compliant vehicles.
The EPA issued a notice of violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act to Volkswagen AG and its subsidiaries, Audi AG and Volkswagen Group of America. The NOV claims that four-cylinder Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars from model years 2009-2015 used a "defeat device" that regulates emissions only during emissions testing.
According to tests conducted by the EPA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB), affected vehicles emit as much as 40 times more pollution than allowed by emission standards."
Thomas Claburn reports for InformationWeek September 19, 2015.
SEE ALSO:
"VW's Emissions Cheating Found by Curious Clean-Air Group" (Bloomberg)
"Volkswagen to Stop Sales of Diesel Cars Involved in Recall" (New York Times)
"Volkswagen Issues Sales Halt; CEO Apologizes on Emissions Cheating" (USA TODAY)
"Volkswagen Drops 23% After Admitting Diesel Emissions Cheat" (Bloomberg)
"Volkswagen Could Face $18 Billion Penalties From EPA" (Reuters)
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