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This article was published on 14 January 2016 at 12:30.
The last change is the January 14, 2016 at 19:20.
Crash in the stock market for Renault after news of searches – for possible fraud – in different venues automaker. The title came to lose 20% (in the final, however, has halved its losses), dragging down also Peugeot, Fca (-9%), Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen, followed by Ferrari (-5%). The Eurostoxx industry is the worst in Europe with a drop of more than 3 percent.
The France Presse, citing the union CGT Renault site Lardy, wrote that investigators French anti-fraud services have seized the computer of some offices Renault on January 7. The sectors involved (“approval and development of motor controls”) suggest that these searches are related to the consequences of the deal “engines rigged” Volkswagen, say the unions.
The response to rumors of Renault does not have to wait long. The company confirmed inspections last week and explained that “investigators have decided to carry out additional checks in the factories.” The current test, said Renault, have at the time “highlighted mechanisms falsified emissions” and still the company is “cooperating fully with any further investigations in progress.” ‘The Direction Générale de l’Energie et du Climat (Dgec), pilot partner of the Technical Commission independently on behalf of the French Ministry of Ecology, believes now that the current proceedings do not record the presence of a software rigged vehicles Renault, “concluded the French manufacturer.
In the afternoon, the Minister responsible for the Environment and Transport, Segolene Royal, has stated that in the event Renault was observed “a the limits laid down by the rules” on CO2 and nitrogen oxide, but “no fraud.” For the Royal Minister, the analyzes conducted on Renault engines and two other foreign manufacturers do not reveal the existence of an ‘illegal software’ to rig emissions.
After the scandal Volkswagen (-5.10% Frankfurt), Renault had announced in December a planned investment of 50 million Euros to reduce the gap between the emissions of its vehicles in type approval conditions and under real conditions.
The title was also affected by the decline car sales in Russia in 2015 (-46%), where the group is exposed under the brand Avtovaz.
Inspections by the French authorities seems Fraud disputes involve units of the engine management. The suspect, according to rumors, might be with the Energy 1.6 dCi turbodiesel engine offered in two power levels (130 and 160 hp), which equips many models in the group Renault-Nissan (Renault Espace, Nissan Qashqai for example) but also cars Daimler, like the Mercedes C-Class by virtue of the industrial alliance under way between the house and the Franco-Japanese three-pointed star.
It should be noted that the 1.6 dCi Bosch EDC17 ECUs mounts, the same family as those used Volkswagen EA 189 engine involved in dieselgate.
In recent weeks, tests carried out by an organization environmentalist German had questioned the regularity of the emission values of the 1600 cc turbo diesel, which equips among others, the new Renault Espace, but not only. The test was, however, challenged by the French company as conducted with procedures different from those provided in the package.
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