DIESELGATE

Dieselgate is associated with the Volkswagen diesel car engines. It is the most talking point now a days as it is the biggest scandal in company’s 78 years history. Volkswagen is the name of a famous German car manufacturer situated at the Wolfsburg. But presently in news due to wrong reasons.

As we know that a car has to go timely for pollution checking at pollution center. An unassuming 45-year-old American engineer Daniel Carded, appears an unlikely  type to take down one of the world’s most powerful companies. But he and his small research team at West Virginia University may have done exactly that, with a $50,000 study which produced early evidence that Volkswagen AG was cheating on U.S. vehicle emissions tests, setting off a scandal that threatens the German automaker’s leadership, reputation and finances.

Carder’s team -  a research professor, two graduate students, a faculty member and himself performed road tests around Los Angeles and up the West Coast to Seattle that generated results so pronounced that they initially suspected a problem with their own research. At first they did not believe their selves. They thought that did not do something right. They saw huge discrepancies. There was one vehicle with 10 to 20 times the emission levels and other vehicle 15 to 35 times  the emission levels. Despite the discrepancies, a fix should not involve major changes .It could be something very small.

The testing they did kind of opened the can of worms. The research project that found much higher on-road diesel emission levels for VW vehicles than what U.S. regulators were seeing in tests. The results of that study, which was paid for by the non-profit International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in late 2013 and completed in May 2014, were later corroborated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resources Board (CARB).

Later it was found that VW manipulated the emission tests. It was done as VW programmed computers in its cars to detect when they were being tested and alter the running of their diesel engines to conceal their true emissions. All this was disclosed in U.S.

New CEO Mr. Matthias

As soon as this news comes out “#dieselgate” started trending on twitter. Company’s shares have taken a dip of 30% till 24^th Sep. 2015. German prosecutors said they were conducting a preliminary investigation into the manipulation of vehicle emission test results at Volkswagen. U.S. authorities are planning criminal investigations after discovering it. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had urged VW to move “as quickly as possible” to restore confidence in a company held up for generations as a paragon of engineering prowess.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) said VW could face penalties of up to $18 nillion for cheating emissions tests on some of its diesel cars. Volkswagen said it was setting aside 6.5 billion euros to help cover the costs of the crisis. But analysts doubt that will be enough, with the company disclosing that 11 million of its cars were fitted with Type EA 189 engines that had shown a “noticeable deviation”  in emission levels between testing and road use.

Former CEO Mr. Winterkorn

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned on 23^rd sep. 2015 and new CEO Matthias took charge on 26^th sep. 2015. Till 26^th September 2015.  34 lawsuits have been filed against Volkswagen alone in U.S. Diesel engines account for less than 3 per cent of new cars sold in the United States. Former CEO Winterkorn said he was shocked by events of the past few days, above all that misconduct on such a massive scale was possible at the company. The story has sent shock waves through the car market, with dealers reporting people holding back from buying diesel cars.

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