Milan – Volkswagen tries to turn the page with Matthias Mueller. He will be the successor of Martin Winterkorn, a rate that does not sever the furrow with the past, but transfers control in the hands of the number one Porsche, one of the luxury brands of polo German automaker. Less than a week after the outbreak of dieselgate with the revelation that he had rigged the emission data of eleven million cars, the home of Wolfsburg tries to speed up change. “My most important task is to regain confidence in the Volkswagen Group,” says the new high in a statement, adding: “I will not leave no stone unturned and will act with the utmost transparency, as I will draw the right conclusions from the situation current “. “Under my leadership, the Volkswagen will do everything. It can develop and implement standards of compliance and governance more rigorous in our industry.” “If we can achieve this – it concludes – the Volkswagen Group with its innovative strength, its strong brands and especially its competent and motivated team has a chance to get out of this crisis stronger than before.” Within the group, meanwhile, it began the hunt for culprits or passing the buck.
Again to serve the German company to get out of a scandal that has “a moral and political disaster.” Said the president of cds Vw, Berthold Huber, presenting the nomination in Wolfsburg, at the press conference. Huber made an apology to “customers, public authorities and investors” and asked them not to remove support for Volkswagen because he recovers from the damage caused by the scandal of emissions. “Let me be very clear: the manipulation of the evidence for diesel engines is a moral and political disaster,” said Huber. “The illegal behavior of developers and engineers for the development of the Volkswagen engines shocked as the audience,” he continued. The President of the CDS announced that the German company will hold an extraordinary general meeting on November 9 in Berlin to approve the restructuring plan. Huber said that the supervisory board “has proposed to suspend several employees waiting for the story to be clarified.” According to the council, the scandal emissions was caused by a “small group of people”.
It still holds its grip around the auto giant is in the US. The Department of Justice said that an investigation will lead Volkswagen and allegations of violation of smog, charges that are taken “very seriously”, for “their potential implications for public health and pollution in the US.”
not yet been made public, however, the list of models tampered: the moment we only know that those are diesel-powered EA 189, which is mounted such as Golf, Jetta, Passat and Beetle and Audi A3. Yesterday, the German Transport Minister, Alexander Dobrint had proved to be “informed that in Europe vehicles with diesel engines 1.6 and 2.0 have been manipulated”. So it is likely that the Old Continent there is in circulation a number of cars that pollute more than it says: only in Germany are 2.8 million vehicles involved in the scandal, and among them there would also 1.2 displacement cars and some vans .
This is also why the European Commission has come an uncompromising message: “We will have zero tolerance on fraud,” said the charge of Industry Elzbieta Bienkowska. In particular, it points out, “it is necessary that there is full clarity and efficient tests on pollutant emissions.” The German Economy Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, however, already looks over and asks “incentives for electric cars.” From the US, however, the agency EPA which exposed the trick of software promises new tests, strict, even on the other car, which has already received letters announcing the crackdown.
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The scandal in Europe. In Italy, the CEO of the German group, Massimo Nordio, wrote to Environment Minister Gianluca 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 “. The Minister of Transport, Graziano Delrio, however, reveals that in Italy the machines might be a dubious milione.Anche why the prosecutors in Turin have opened an investigation on the issue. On the other hand El Pais has revealed that Seat , the Spanish house of the German group, has installed more than half a million engines loaded on cars produced in the Iberian Peninsula since 2009. Again, Seat assured that “all new cars sold in the EU equipped with Euro 6 engines meet, without exception, the legal and environmental.”
Yesterday in the eye of the storm was over BMW , which according to the journal AutoBild would be at risk of violations: the title on the stock market collapsed, but now recovers. The same newspaper has indicated that there is no evidence of manipulation of data on emissions by the manufacturer. It does not deny the fact that a model BMW is not result in compliance with emissions standards but this, said the magazine, does not mean that the group is guilty of manipulating data on emissions. The securities of the same BMW have so benefited from a significant recovery in the stock market, while sales are back on after Volkswagen’s new on the number of vehicles involved in Germany at the end Wolfsburg lost nearly 4.5%.
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