When the International Council on Clean Transportation began to look into discrepancies in the emissions of several Volkswagen diesel vehicles in early 2014, it was with the sincerest of intentions.
Noting that the U.S. had stricter and more rigorously enforced emissions laws that Volkswagen’s TDI-equipped cars routinely passed without problems, the ICCT figured performing some tests on U.S. soil would provide them with a good control model.
Enlisting the help of West Virginia University’s Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines, and Emissions (CAFEE) to assist with the real world testing, it seemed the data revealed the real cause of the inconsistencies.
But when the results came out and gathered via real world testing and were compared with the compliant numbers generated in the laboratory by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), it was clear something wasn’t kosher in dieselburg.
A group of researchers led by Daniel Cardel of West Virginia University's CAFEE found out that the Volkswagen become the largest selling auto maker in the world has been caught commiting the biggest corporate cybercrime of all time.
Mr. Carder reported on the test saying, "The first thing you do is beat yourself up and say, 'Did we not do something right?' You always blame yourself," he told Reuters in an interview. "(We) saw huge discrepancies. There was one vehicle with 15 to 35 times the emissions levels and another vehicle with 10 to 20 times the emissions levels."
Even after the Volkswagen pays the multibillion dollar bill to refit its diesel cars to meet EPA standards its clients will have to pay a price too. Because their cars will get worse mileage and] will command a lower resale price.
The Volkswagen is the biggest in Germany's car makers and one of the country's largest employee rates with more than two hundred seventy thousand jobs in its country and even more working for suppliers. The Chief Executive of Volkswagen Martin Winterkorn paid the price of the scandal over the fraud emission tests.
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