Volkswagen emissions scandal
In fall 2015 it was uncovered that Volkswagen used an illegal defeat device in the motor control of their diesel vehicles to avoid the US emission standards. According to Volkswagen AG this software is in use in eleven million vehicles worldwide.
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23/12/16
Volkswagen is taking another important hurdle to tackle the emission scandal. The Group has agreed with US private plaintiffs on a fundamental agreement on a...
21/12/16
Volkswagen has agreed to a compromise with the American authorities in the exhaust scandal. The Group plans to repurchase a portion of the 80,000 3.0-liter...
20/12/16
Volkswagen pays 1.5 billion euros for comparison in Canada. Next step in the processing of the diesel fuel scandal: The VW Group pays up to 1.5 billion euros...
07/11/16
Another VW top manager has to ask himself unpleasant questions about the exhaustion scandal: the prosecutor's office is now also determined against board...
05/11/16
Exhaust gas scandal: Volkswagen insists on not violating EU law in exhaust gas manipulation. The Federal Ministry of Transport (KBA) sees this differently....
05/11/16
Tricked, yes, cheated no - this is how VW represents his behavior in the emission scandal in Europe. In the federal government, the legal argument appears to...
29/10/16
Because of the exhaust gas scandal, Audi is alarmed. The Volkswagen subsidiary may have to buy back all 85,000 cars with three-liter diesel engines from...
26/10/16
One year after the acquaintance of the emission scandal an agreement between VW and the US authorities is established. The Group must pay € 15.2 billion.
26/10/16
One year after the acquaintance of the emission scandal an agreement between VW and the US authorities is established. The Group must pay € 15.2 billion.
22/10/16
The diesel scandal gets expensive for Audi: The VW subsidiary in the US is expected to buy back 25,000 cars.
18/10/16
Exhaust gas scandal: Also Missouri filed suit against Volkswagen
22/09/16
Volkswagen is facing €8.2bn ($9.1bn; £7bn) in damages claims from 1,400 German investors over its emissions scandal, a state court has said.
16/09/16
Asset manager Blackrock and a group of institutional shareholders are to sue car maker Volkswagen for €2bn (£1.7bn) over its emissions scandal.
10/09/16
A Volkswagen engineer has pleaded guilty to involvement in The German carmaker's diesel emissions scandal.
01/09/16
Australia is suing the local arm of Volkswagen for allegedly misleading customers by selling modified vehicles that covered up emissions fraud.
20/07/16
In a lawsuit several US states have accused the management of Volkswagen to have covered up evidence in the exhaust scandal. Mentioned among others is ex-boss...
14/07/16
The California Environmental Protection Agency CARB rejected the VW recall plan for three-liter engines because of incompleteness. Approximately 16,000...
08/07/16
Exhaust scandal: Volkswagen should pay additional $ 86 million to the State of California. Most of it goes to the office of the Attorney General.
03/07/16
The german fishmonger "Deutsche See" used more than thousand cars of Volkswagen in recent years. After the exhaust scandal, the company feels...
02/07/16
US prosecutors want to prove Bosch of complicity in VW exhaust scandal. According to an informant documents show that Bosch knew what the motor control...
29/06/16
Volkswagen has achieved in the USA the first major comparison in the diesel affair. But the company has several open processes, which could cost him billions.
28/06/16
Volkswagen agrees to repurchase or convert hundreds of thousands affected cars in the United States. Included in the total amount of 13.6 billion Euro is also...
23/06/16
Volkswagen AGM relieved two boards. The major shareholder Lower Saxony has abstained from the decision.
21/06/16
Volkswagen Emissions scandal: Prosecution has launched an investigation against the former VW CEO Winterkorn. It's about market manipulation.
17/06/16
Volkswagen is in the greatest crisis of its history. CEO Matthias Müller wants to rebuild completely the Wolfsburg company.
09/06/16
Shortly before the announcement of VW emission scandal a manager apparently tried to stash away data.
16/05/16
The Norwegian state fund is preparing a lawsuit against the Volkswagen group for losses in the course of the emissions scandal.
13/04/16
The VW top managers should get significantly less money in order to the exhaust affair. According to an insider, the bonuses will be reduced by at least one...
13/04/16
Volkswagen cuts the bonuses of their directors.
06/04/16
VW is being sued in the US by an authorized dealer. The carmaker had systematically deceived the traders in the exhaust affair, so the accusation.
29/03/16
Emission scandal: The trade authority FTC is filing a lawsuit for misleading advertising against Volkswagen.
26/03/16
Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller is relieved by the statements of several managers. Müller had been accused to have known about the forbidden software two weeks...
24/03/16
Volkswagen has reached an extension of time for a proposed solution to the exhaust affair with the US Attorney.
18/03/16
Exhaust affair: Two board members apparently already knew in August of prohibited software and threatening penalties.
15/03/16
Volkswagen emission scandal: Nearly 300 major shareholders have sued the carmaker in Germany to around three billion euros of compensation.
13/03/16
According to one report, the California Environmental Protection Agency CARB shows willingness to compromise. Accordingly, perhaps not all cars have to be...
13/03/16
New discoveries in the emission affair burdening members of the current Board of Management.
11/03/16
Exhaust affair: VW board members should have known earlier of manipulations.
11/03/16
Apparently VW has refined the manipulation in their diesel vehicles, despite of the ongoing investigated of US authorities.
10/03/16
The US chief executive of VW, Michael Horn, retires about six months after the announcement of the exhaust scandal. Successor is initially Ex-BMW manager...
09/03/16
The US Justice Department has expanded its investigation against Volkswagen in the exhaust affair. According to the Wall Street Journal it is now also about...
08/03/16
Next trouble for Volkswagen: the Allianz Group apparently also wants to take action against the carmaker because of the emission affair.
08/03/16
Volkswagen affair: prosecutors are investigating against 17 suspects.
07/03/16
CEO Matthias Müller and supervisory board chairman Hans Dieter Pötsch knew perhaps earlier about the tricks in the exhaust gas values.
07/03/16
Emissions scandal: VW investors want to get recompensed by Volkswagen for their loss by exchange.
25/02/16
A U.S. federal judge will hold a hearing Thursday that may offer the first details on any progress in settling over 500 lawsuits filed against Volkswagen AG, a...
24/02/16
His predecessor Martin Winterkorn and other top managers have been sued already. Now the first class-action lawsuits against Volkswagen CEO Müller was...
16/02/16
Ex-VW CEO: Winterkorn should have known already 2014 of the increased exhaust gas values.
27/01/16
The European commission today (27 January) proposed a new regulation to overhaul how national authorities approve car types - four months after the Volkswagen...
27/01/16
In the exhaust scandal, the VW group is guilty - but also the supervisors in Brussels are disgraced. US authorities revealed what they missed for years. The...
25/01/16
After the European commission called for VW to be “fair” in compensating victims of the dieselgate scandal, questions have been raised over its actual capacity...
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22/01/16
According to SPIEGEL information Wolfgang Hatz may return in the Porsche board back. The former head of the VW engine development is suspended because of the...
21/01/16
Forty-five MEPs were voted into the European Parliament's new inquiry committee tasked with uncovering potential failures of EU institutions to disclose...
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21/01/16
European Commissioner for Industry Elżbieta Bieńkowska increased the pressure on Volkswagen to compensate European consumers, as it has done for US drivers,...
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19/01/16
Special Representative for exhaust affair: VW workers reject ex-FBI chief.
19/01/16
Volkswagen has found a candidate for one of the most complex job in the Group: Hinrich Woebcken accepts the position of the proconsul in the United States.
19/01/16
In the VW affair, the Bureau of the Supervisory Board is discussing the disastrous US mission by Matthias Müller. The CEO will have to answer uncomfortable...
18/01/16
In the US, Volkswagen threatens a billions penalty. Therefore, the car company wants to hire the former FBI Director Louis Freeh as a consultant, according to...
14/01/16
Volkswagen emission scandal: 60,0000 European customers want compensations of the company.
12/01/16
Emission affair: Volkswagen CEO Müller disgraced during interview
12/01/16
VW emission scandal: The California Environmental Protection Agency CARB rejected a recall plan by Volkswagen for the repair of 2.0-liter diesel engines. It...
11/01/16
More Coupons, more cash, more service - with this strategy Volkswagen will bundle customers in the US after the exhaust affair. CEO Müller promises "to...
11/01/16
VW CEO Matthias Müller has announced million investment in the US - despite the threat of lawsuits billion. Once again, he apologized for the exhaust...
09/01/16
Both in Germany and in the US Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller seems to be owerwhelmed with the investigation of the manipulated exhaust values scandal. Tt...
08/01/16
In the scandal of manipulated diesel engines, the US Justice increases the pressure on VW: The carmaker cooperating insufficient, the federal prosecutors...
04/01/16
The US Justice Department files a lawsuit against Volkswagen for violating environmental laws. The penalties for the concern could go into billions of dollars.
17/12/15
The European Parliament voted today (17 March) to launch a committee of inquiry into the Volkswagen emissions scandal, with a mandate to investigate the...
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17/12/15
The European Parliament voted today (17 March) to launch a committee of inquiry into the Volkswagen emissions scandal, with a mandate to investigate the...
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16/12/15
The European commission's anti-Corruption division has opened proceedings against Volkswagen. The company could have used EU funding for illegal research
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24/11/15
German prosecutors have launched an investigation into suspected Tax Evasion in connection with cheating on emissions tests by Volkswagen
29/10/15
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) believes that up to around 20 people were involved in its rigging of diesel-engine emissions tests, a person familiar with the matter...
15/10/15
Germany ordered Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) on Thursday to recall and refit 2.4 million diesel vehicles next year, following the company's admission it rigged...
09/10/15
Volkswagen AG's (VOWG_p.DE) U.S. chief executive blamed "individuals" for using software to cheat on diesel emissions at a House hearing on...
30/09/15
Senior Volkswagen executives will examine on Wednesday findings from an internal investigation into its rigging of vehicle emission tests and prepare for an...
30/09/15
German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) subsidiary Audi related to the scandal over rigged emissions, a...
26/09/15
Angela Merkel learned early in her political career that taking on the German car industry carries risks. It was the spring of 1995 and the newly appointed...
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22/09/15
Volkswagen AG said a scandal over falsified U.S. vehicle emission tests could affect 11 million of its cars worldwide as investigations of its diesel models...
