Milan – The Volkswagen scandal spreads like wildfire in Europe, where it is now certain that there are cars with emissions data rigged and emerge preliminary reports involving other brands of wheels. All while the US emerges a backstory: the German company had warned in April, with a letter, owners of California that the cars could not pass the tests anti-pollution and that the company would be released shortly a new software the control units of diesel control with the aim of solving the problem. And ‘one of the latest innovations that throws a different light on the scandal of emissions, following the exit of the CEO Martin Winterkorn.
The scandal in Europe. In Italy, the’ Massimo Nordio writes to the minister Galletti: the new Volkswagen vehicles fitted with Euro 6 diesel engines currently available in the European Union, “including those for sale on the Italian market, are all complying with the European standard for exhaust gas”, while they are During checks on other engines. The scandal, however, begins to take shape elsewhere: according to El Pais , Seat , the Spanish house of the German group, has installed more than half a million engines loaded on car produced since 2009. Again, however, Seat ensures that “all new cars sold in the EU equipped with Euro 6 engines meet, without exception, the legal and environmental.” Press commentary see also BMW as a possible victim of the scandal, with the SUV X3 which for the newspaper AutoBild would be outside the parameters of emissions: to certify a study dell’Icct, the same body that has exposed Vw. BMW, meanwhile, has been replicated in the SUV have not installed software that tampers with the measurement of greenhouse gas. News that still bringing down the title, while Volkswagen loses much of the initial rise: the Swedish bank Nordea, the largest in Northern Europe, has issued orders not to buy shares Vw its traders. The German Ministry of Transport runs for cover and announces “random testing” on other automakers, but admits he does not know how many of the 11 million cars rigged announced relate to the Old Continent. That there are, of fixing, however, is given for granted admission to the same house in Wolfsburg.
The letter to customers. Feeling your breath on the neck of the agency for California control of the environment, the ‘Volkswagen of America Inc.’ He had sent a letter to its customers owners of diesel cars Audi and Volkswagen for a generic “recall action for emission problems” of the exhaust gases. To the owners of cars with engines at risk of not exceed periodic tests were told to bring the car to the dealer where it was installed new software to ensure that emissions from the tailpipes were “optimized to operate efficiently.”
Volkswagen however clarified that the operation had been initiated only to comply with a ploy the stringent quality standards of the local supervisory authorities. Among these they were for months raising doubts about the major differences between the emissions recorded in the laboratory (the fact rigged with software that altered the results) and those in road tests, where the program that lowers the levels of emissions of polluting gases not working .
Officials of the Air Resources Board of California, and their counterparts in the federal EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) agreed in December 2014 the operation of voluntary recall of the Volkswagen diesel cars with engine 2 liters produced between 2010 and 2014 to solve what the German company claimed was an innocent technical malfunction and easy solution that could have exchanged the engine more polluting than the company does not attested. In summary, the plan to hide the damage caused by the engines not in line with the latest environmental standards, had been planned for some time.
The buyout of the CEO and the succession. According reconstructs Bloomberg , former CEO Winterkorn will be up a pension from 28.6 million euro. The figure emerges from the latest annual report, which says the US agency, “does not indicate conditions for which the sum could not be paid.” A Winterkorn could even go two Annalita upon exit for total 33 million, but the word is up to the board that could reduce the amount. Last year, the manager was the second highest-paid in Germany with 16.6 million.
Meanwhile, the German company is struggling with the succession, which could come as early as Friday. From tomorrow, they say insiders, could come out the names of those responsible for the scandal, while the Supervisory Board would be looking to two names for the new CEO Matthias Mueller, the man backed by the families that control Porsche VW, and Herbert Diess, a former executive BMW and chose this year to lead the new division of the brand group. According to some analysts, Mueller could be awarded a temporary need to stabilize the company, which would then be entrusted to Diess, or Andreas Renschler, a number of commercial vehicles division. But Commerzbank for a possible candidate would also Sascha Gommel, head of Skoda, the Czech company controlled by the Wolfsburg. The only thing certain right now is that the successor will not be an outsider to the group, considering that 51% of VW is in the hands of the Porsche and Piech families with Lower Saxony which holds a further 20% (Infographic: those in power).
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