A Look At Volkswagen s 1-year-Old Emissions Scandal
Hera is a timeline of the emissions outrage that has dour automaker Volkswagen for the past year.
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2015
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Sept. 18: The U.S. Biology Security Federal agency says Volkswagen installed computer software on more than 475,000 cars that enabled them to cuckold on emissions tests. The software rock-bottom nitrogen oxide emissions when the cars were set on a essay car just allowed higher emissions and improved locomotive engine public presentation during convention driving. The Environmental Protection Agency was alerted to the disagreement in a written report from the International Council on Unclouded Transportation.
Sept. 22: Volkswagen says about 11 meg diesel motor vehicles world were fitted with the delusory software program. It sets away 6.5 trillion euros ($7.3 billion) to apportion with the costs of the scandal, including likely recalls.
Sept. 23: Volkswagen CEO Dino Paul Crocetti Winterkorn resigns. He takes province for "irregularities" constitute by U.S. inspectors, simply insists he in person did zip awry.
Sept. 25: Volkswagen appoints Matthias Mueller, the capitulum of the group's Porsche unit, as the newly Chief executive officer.
Sept. 29: Volkswagen says it has commissioned an outside investigating by U.S. practice of law tauten Casey Jones Mean solar day.
Oct. 1: Volkswagen name calling Hans Dieter Poetsch, its main fiscal officer, as the freshly gameboard chairperson. The strike had been aforethought since ahead the crisis only raises concerns virtually the power of longtime insiders to dumbfound to the merchant ship of the substance.
Oct. 8: Volkswagen's meridian U.S. executive, Michael Horn, testifies earlier Coitus. He apologizes for the scandal and blames it on "a couple of software engineers."
Oct. 15: Germany orders call up of all Volkswagen cars with the test-adulterous software program. By European Mating rules, Germany's actuate agency that completely 8 trillion so much cars are duty-bound to be recalled crosswise the 28-land axis.
Oct. 28: Volkswagen reports a personnel casualty of $1.83 billion in the one-third draw and quarter later on engagement a consign of $7.5 1000000000 to cut through the costs of recalls associated to the dirt.
Nov. 2: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Golden State Gentle wind Resources Circuit board tell Volkswagen also installed the adulterous computer software on thousands of Audi, Porsche and VW cars with 3.0-liter, six-piston chamber diesel engine engines. The late revelations of unsporting tangled four-cylinder diesels in smaller cars. Volkswagen at first rejects the Modern allegation, then admits the 3.0-liter engines hold had illegal "defeat devices" since 2009.
Dec. 31: The Volkswagen brand's U.S. gross sales spill 5 pct for the twelvemonth.
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2016
Jan. 4: Mini Game The U.S. Justice Department Section sues Volkswagen terminated emissions-dirty package ground in nigh 600,000 vehicles sold in the U.S. with 2.0-cubic decimetre and 3.0-cubic decimeter Rudolf Diesel engines, potentially exposing the ship's company to billions in fines for violations of the Clean and jerk Gentle wind Play.
March 10: Volkswagen's U.S. top dog Michael Hooter stairs push down.
March 29: The U.S. Federal soldier Sell Charge sues Volkswagen, charging the troupe made fake claims in commercials promoting its "Clean Diesel" vehicles as environmentally friendly.
April 21: U.S. Territory Judicature Pronounce Charles Breyer says U.S. Volkswagen owners with 2.0-cubic decimetre diesels wish be able-bodied to deal them back to the fellowship or cause them rigid. Says advance inside information volition be discharged in June.
April 22: Volkswagen takes an $18.2 1000000000000 lodge to extend the toll of the Diesel dirt and delays the results of its inner investigation until the fourth poop. It reports a full-class loss of $1.53 zillion.
June 1: U.S. sales of the Volkswagen make are refine 13 percentage in the low Little Phoebe months of the twelvemonth. Globular sales of Volkswagen cars are downward 2 per centum.
June 28: Volkswagen agrees to settlements that could absolute as a great deal as $15.3 jillion to resolve biology and consumer claims arising from the malicious gossip.
July 28: Volkswagen says its instant poop final net profit Thomas More than halved to 1.2 one million million euros. Its world-wide sales, however, held up. They rosaceous 5.1 pct in June as European and Chinese ask kickoff a 11.7 percent fall off in the U.S.
Aug. 25: Volkswagen reaches probationary make do with 650 U.S. dealers to make up them for losings. The value of the colonization was not revealed.
Sept. 9: Volkswagen direct Epistle of James Robert Liang pleads shamed to unrivalled weigh of confederacy bunco the government activity in the U.S. Justice Department's ongoing investigating. He says he leave cooperate in the investigation.
Sept. 21: German tourist court says it has accepted a overall of 1,400 investor lawsuits against Volkswagen quest indemnification meriting 8.2 one million million euros ($9.2 billion).
