“Audi deeply involved in emissions scandal”

The VW Group subsidiary Audi apparently used software manipulation to stay below US emissions limits in its diesel engines for years, even though it has been denying this charge, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung. An engineer wrote an email to managers as early as 2007 saying the carmaker wouldn’t manage to stick to official limits “entirely without cheating”, according to an investigation by the newspaper and public broadcasters NDR and WDR. Thomas Fromm and Klaus Ott write that the software was used in diesel engines with a displacement of three litres. They say Audi is by now considered the “mother of the deceit” within the VW Group. Audi told the journalists it could not comment because of ongoing investigations in the US.

Read the report in German here.  

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