Volkswagen has been hit with over 600 lawsuits in the US, all being overseen by US District Judge Charles Breyer. Volkswagen has maintained that its executives knew nothing about the defeat devices installed on the company's purported "clean diesel" vehicles, instead asserting that the devices were the product of some rogue engineers. The EPA estimated that VW Group’s 2.0L engines were emitting up to 40 times the amount of nitrogen oxide (NO x) as was allowable by federal regulations.
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The EPA discovered that the 500,000 US diesels were cheating its emissions tests, using software to keep the car within permissible emissions ranges during laboratory tests, but then switching off that emissions control system when the car was being driven in real-world conditions. The diesels were discovered in September to be equipped with illegal defeat devices, sending the German automaker’s stock in a tailspin and setting off a ripple effect of scandal throughout the company. Reuters reports that the compensation fund represents more than $1 billion. A third person briefed on the matter added that VW Group would set up a compensation fund for people who had purchased the Volkswagen and Audi diesels, although that source did not specify how much each diesel purchaser would get from the fund. Original story: On Wednesday, Reuters reported that two anonymous sources briefed on the matter agreed that Volkswagen Group would buy back nearly 500,000 2.0L engine diesel vehicles equipped with illegal defeat devices as part of an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). US District Judge Charles Breyer announced that Volkswagen Group will buy back nearly a half-million vehicles that were equipped with emissions-cheating software.
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Further Reading Volkswagen makes it official-it’s buying back 500,000 2.0L diesels Update (April 21, 12:13pm EDT): It is official.
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