Software development will become part of the curriculum … – SAPO Tek

The Portugal coalition to Front and the Socialist Party are in agreement regarding the need to take the next parliamentary term to make some changes in education, especially with regard to ICT.

Both programs refer intend to introduce software development in the curriculum of schools for compulsory education. The idea is not new and has been suggested insistently by several experts, even as a way of promoting interest in engineering areas.

Even the Ministry of Education has supported and promoted pilots in this area as the initiative Initiation to Programming in the 1st cycle of basic education a voluntary program that debuts this school year.

In the area of ​​ICT PAF coalition also notes the intention of encouraging the use of digital educational solutions since the early years of each cycle and the progressive replacement of paper manuals for digital content.

The PS is less incisive in the way it addresses the issue of digital content, but also signals the intention to field a “educational digital resources strategy,” to promote the use of digital content and argues that this strategy should be defined in coordination with communities of practice, involving writers, producers, teachers, students and parents.

The party led by António Costa openly supports the intention to review the discipline ICT and also wants to promote the use of ICT in schools “since early”.

The dematerialisation of more educational services also has space on campaign promises. It is one of the points made in the PSD / CDS coalition program, turn to government, wants to eliminate paper in the issuance of diplomas and digital educational certificates and create an integrated system of student management, which will fit the electronic registration and the individual record of the student.

You can find out more about the proposals of the parties to the area of ​​Information and Communication Technologies in this article: What will change in technology with the next government? See the proposals of the parties

Software development will become part of the curriculum … – SAPO Tek

The Portugal coalition to Front and the Socialist Party are in agreement regarding the need to take the next parliamentary term to make some changes in education, especially with regard to ICT.

Both programs refer intend to introduce software development in the curriculum of schools for compulsory education. The idea is not new and has been suggested insistently by several experts, even as a way of promoting interest in engineering areas.

Even the Ministry of Education has supported and promoted pilots in this area as the initiative Initiation to Programming in the 1st cycle of basic education a voluntary program that debuts this school year.

In the area of ​​ICT PAF coalition also notes the intention of encouraging the use of digital educational solutions since the early years of each cycle and the progressive replacement of paper manuals for digital content.

The PS is less incisive in the way it addresses the issue of digital content, but also signals the intention to field a “educational digital resources strategy,” to promote the use of digital content and argues that this strategy should be defined in coordination with communities of practice, involving writers, producers, teachers, students and parents.

The party led by António Costa openly supports the intention to review the discipline ICT and also wants to promote the use of ICT in schools “since early”.

The dematerialisation of more educational services also has space on campaign promises. It is one of the points made in the PSD / CDS coalition program, turn to government, wants to eliminate paper in the issuance of diplomas and digital educational certificates and create an integrated system of student management, which will fit the electronic registration and the individual record of the student.

You can find out more about the proposals of the parties to the area of ​​Information and Communication Technologies in this article: What will change in technology with the next government? See the proposals of the parties

Volkswagen sends collect the 11 million cars with software … – Renaissance

The German brand Volkswagen will collect the 11 million diesel cars with software, which distorted the performance of engines for pollutant emissions.

The new administrator of the group, Matthias Mueller, said that cars fitted with the device will be called the workshop. Customers will be contacted in the “coming days.”

According to analysts, this operation will cost about 6.5 billion.

Renaissance tried out to the SIVA, the brand representative in Portugal if there is Portuguese from this list, but is still awaiting a response.

The VW points out that their cars are safe to cycle, ensuring be working to find a technical solution for the affected vehicles, as soon as possible, and present it to the regulator.

Following the scandal, the Japanese Ministry of Transport wants to Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and Mitsubishi Motors to check whether the cars meet the emission standards. It was given until Friday to submit a report.

The Volkswagen Group in Spain suspended indefinitely, sales of Audi vehicles, Seat, Skoda and Volkswagen itself. The decision applies to diesel cars is handled and released this Tuesday by the newspaper “El Mundo”.

However, Audi, Skoda and Seat already admitted vehicles worldwide equipped with illegal software.

On 18 September, the medium of the United States Environmental Protection Agency has accused Volkswagen of distorting the performance of engines in terms of emissions pollutants through an embedded software in the vehicle, incurring a fine of up to to 18 billion (approximately EUR 15.9 billion).

Two days later, VW acknowledged having falsified data on 11 million vehicles. The following week, the chief executive of Volkswagen, Martin Winterkorn, has demanded the resignation and, on Friday, the company announced the appointment of Matthias Mueller, president of Porsche as the new CEO of the group.

“Gap” in other brands

A study reveals “abyss” between anti-emissions testing and actual performance of the cars.

The research, the European Federation authorship for Transport and Environment (AISBL), an organization that works with the European Commission, was released Monday by the “Mad Money,” says that Volkswagen “is tip of the iceberg” and the “Mercedes, BMW and Peugeot distort data.”

The online diary reinforces that Volkswagen “was the first to be discovered, but is far from the only giant of the automotive industry manipulating the exhaust emissions testing. ”

Portugal: 95 000 cars with fraudulent software – Pplware

One of the most prominent news in recent days is arguably the scandal of Volkswagen’s emissions. In addition to the Volkswagen vehicles, it is also known that some Audi models, Skoda and SEAT are also equipped with software that handles pollutant emissions.

Overall, in Portugal, are about 94,400 affected vehicles By such a problem.

The number of vehicles equipped with the fraudulent software was revealed by SIVA that is representative in Portugal of Audi, Skoda and Volkswagen. In total, 94,400 vehicles. 53,700 of the Volkswagen brand, 31,800 Audi and 8,800 Skoda

In addition to the names mentioned there is the Seat Portugal and belongs to the Volkswagen Group but that is not represented in Portugal by SIVA.

It is known however that brands are already working on technical solutions to solve such a problem and should be already presented in October. However will also be online pages available so that customers can know which vehicles affected.

According to SIVA, the s problems with emissions do not affect the safety of the vehicles concerned not represent any danger to motor traffic.

The software that fooled car tests – Computerworld Portugal

Program used by Volkswagen and Audi in diesel cars literally take the car to get “clean” when he realizes he is being tested.

The research of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against Volkswagen by using software installed on their diesel vehicles sold in the US between 2008 and 2015 to “cheat” greenhouse gas emission tests and issue 10 to 40 times pollutants above the permitted level, continues to reveal new details.

Since 18 Setembrp when the research information was disclosed, the company admitted the practice. Its CEO, Martin Winterkorn, has resigned from office, the initial 482,000 cars affected in the US turned into nearly 11 million Volkswagen vehicles worldwide and that the company could face fines of at least 18 billion dollars.

This Monday, also Audi (brand owned mostly by Volkswagen) confirmed that 2.1 million of its cars had the same software as part of 11 million revealed earlier.

A specialist at West Virginia University believes that an audit of the software can reveal who knew what and when.

Details on how the software installed by the manufacturer deceived the pollutant emission test – in this case, so-called nitrogen oxides (NOx), highly toxic gases generated by burning fossil fuels – are included in the letter from the EPA for Volkswagen dated September 18

According to the EPA, “the position of the steering wheel, the vehicle speed, the time the engine was turned on and barometric pressure -. all very specific indicators of an emissions test – functioned as an activation trigger for the ‘cheating device.’ ” Essentially, the electronic control module of the vehicle (ECM) was changed to work in “clean” throughout the test run period.

“Miracle” technology
Kirk Wennerstrom, marketing director of the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, a company specializing in cars “vintage” of Greenwich, Connecticut (USA), explains that the EPA tests involving the simulation of a number of different speeds, hard braking and simple and starts. “What Volkswagen has done is more or less as an average student hire a ‘nerd’ to pass him in school exams”.

To meet the specifications of emissions, manufacturers of diesel cars injecting a special fluid called AdBlue in the exhaust stream that catalyzes the NOx fumes. This feature reduces in fact the emission of pollutants to the required level but adds weight and cost to cars, forcing their owners to shoulder more maintenance costs because the fluid must be replaced regularly.

“The Volkswagen was the market say he had found a way to comply with the rules without the AdBlue” says Wennerstrom. “Everyone was amazed to innovation and I am sure that many manufacturers have tried a reverse engineering in Volkswagen engines to figure out how she did it.”

In the light of Scandal the BMW fellows actions also had problems last week, after the German magazine Auto Bild published an article which claimed that one of the diesel vehicles emitted manufacturer 11 times more NOx than EU standards allow.

In official response to Auto Bild, BMW said it “does not manipulate or adulterous gas emission tests.”

(IDGNS / Computerworld Brazil)

Audi admits fraudulent software installed on more than two … – Express

The Audi, part of the Volkswagen group (VW), admitted on Monday that 2.1 million of its diesel vehicles are equipped with software that allows you to falsify the results of pollutant emissions. . For now, we identified 577,000 vehicles affected in Germany and 13,000 cars in the US

The German brand is thus the second of the VW group – in addition to the Seat (and own Volkswagen) – to admit that their vehicles are involved in the scandal. The revelation is made after a week marked by controversy involving Volkswagen. The fraudulent system that the company used to mask the emissions in its diesel vehicles has been exposed and VW ended up losing almost 38% on the stock market in just three days.

A total of about 11 million diesel cars in the world are equipped with the device concerned. Following the scandal, the president of the German group, Martin Winkerton, eventually resign. It was replaced by the president of Porsche, Matthias Mueller.

Sources quoted by Reuters show that Volkswagen already suspended the investigation chiefs and development of the Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche, but investor confidence continues to fall – the actions of the German company were to depreciate over 7% on Monday

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BOSCH warned VOLKSWAGEN ON SOFTWARE … – Autoesporte

 

 Bosch would have provided the software Volkswagen diesel engines that triggered the emission fraud scandal, as stated by the German weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag . According to the publication, it would mark the item developed only for testing, but the German manufacturer used for the purpose of manipulating the true level of polluting emissions cars equipped with the propeller 189 EA 2.0 Diesel.

 
 

 According to information obtained by the newspaper, in 2007 Bosch would have alerted the Volkswagen it would be illegal to use the engine software in vehicle production, but the brand has ignored the statement.

 

 Sunday (27), the German publication Frankfurter Allgemeine said that in 2011 there was another warning by an engineer prória automaker. Still, the manufacturer continued installing the software on its TDI engines, which affected other brands of German group, such as Audi, SEAT, Volkswagen and Skoda.

Bosch Positioning

In last Thursday (24), Bosch issued a communiqué stating that Volkswagen has provided both the direct injection system to diesel when the dosing module for treatment of exhaust gases. “As often happens in the automotive supply industry, Bosch deliver these components to OEM specs. Because these components are calibrated and integrated to the complete vehicle systems are the responsibility of each automaker,” the company said in a statement.

The Bosch said also that the current problem is not fundamentally about that. “On the contrary, engineering of combustion engines, modern technology diesel is the best principle, resulting in lower emissions. Modern Powertrain diesel are indispensable to achieve the europeis emissions targets. Diesel means protection for both the consumer and the environment, “he added.

 
 

  Other engines investigated

 

 At first, only the 2.0 TDI engine would be involved in the fraud. Now the 1.6 TDI is also being analyzed is suspected and also that the 1.2 TDI may have been manipulated. Nothing was said about the engine V6 turbodiesel 3.0 Manning larger models of the brand, but they must also enter in the investigations.

 

 Europe began on Monday (28) the investigation into the sale of vehicles with emissions handler software. The scandal was revealed last week by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). So far, at least 11 mihões vehicles sold worldwide may be equipped with this system.

 

More than 2 million Audi vehicles with ‘software’ which falsifies … – Observer

The Audi said today that 2.1 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide are equipped with the ‘software’ which falsifies the results of anti-emissions tests, designed by the parent company Volkswagen.

In Germany alone, 577,000 vehicles were affected and the United States 13,000 cars, said a spokesman for Audi to the France Presse news agency.

The Volkswagen triggered last global outrage week when he admitted 11 million diesel cars worldwide are equipped with so-called deactivation devices that enable pollution controls during the tests, but turns off automatically when the car is driving.

The scandal spotted name of Volkswagen, leaving it exposed to billions of dollars in fines in the United States, with research from Norway to India, which devalued the company a third of its value on the stock market in a week.

On Friday, after a marathon crisis meetings, the Supervisory Board of the global car market leader appointed President of Porsche, Matthias Mueller to replace Martin Winterkorn as CEO of the German group.

The German authorities have established a schedule until 07 October requiring the Volkswagen group to ensure by that date that all diesel cars comply with national emissions standards without using technology that defrauded the test results.

In today’s stock market session, shares of auto giant Volkswagen continued to slide nearly 7%.

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Rui Tavares compares rigor government to fraudulent software VW – Express

The leader of the Free / Next time (L / TDA), Rui Tavares, today compared the accuracy of Minister of accounts finance the ‘software’ of the automotive brand Volkswagen that disguised toxic emissions of their vehicles.

At a rally in Coimbra, in the Norton Center Matos, the head of the list for Lisbon said “the episodes of the last days in Portugal and Germany are illustrative of that, maybe, what Maria Luís Albuquerque learned was not exactly rigor in the accounts of the government boasted “. Speaking before more than a hundred supporters, Rui Tavares criticized the finance minister for claiming that the deficit for 2014 “counts for nothing, it’s just statistics, is just smoke the numbers.”

“After all the lady of the numbers tells us that the numbers are good for nothing. And we have Maria Luís Albuquerque to also tell us who has spent 80% of budget execution this year in the first six months and it’s okay, for nothing we fear, ” joked the candidate. “For many years we have been saying that this government too followed Germany and wanted to imitate it to the last detail. But what she bought [Maria Luís Albuquerque], without having realized, was that software that Volkswagen put on cars and masked toxic emissions, as if he could spend the software by the numbers and they disappear, “stressed Rui Tavares.

several times that the Portuguese Repeating have had enough of a government of” concealment and lies, “candidate accused executive of the coalition led by Pedro Passos Coelho to pursue a continuous impoverishment of strategic, deserves’ to be punished with many years of opposition. ” “We want to defeat this right because vitiated the democratic game, impoverished the country and betrayed the promises which they themselves made to the Portuguese”, said Rui Tavares, noting that “after giving a ride to hell, the debt increased and the deficit is equal “.

At the end of the rally, which also addressed Ana Drago, number two in Lisbon, university professor José Reis, head of list L / TDA by Coimbra, he found that” Portugal can not take longer not arredarmos the right hand of power. “

Free compares accuracy of financial statements to the ‘software’ of Volkswagen – the Minute News (press release)

At a rally in Coimbra, in Norton de Matos Center, the head of the list for Lisbon said “the episodes the past few days in Portugal and Germany are illustrative of that, maybe, what Maria Luís Albuquerque learned was not exactly the rigor in the accounts of the government boasted. “

Speaking before more than a hundred supporters, Rui Tavares criticized the finance minister for claiming that the deficit for 2014″ counts for nothing, it’s just statistics, is just smoke the numbers. “

” After the lady of the numbers tells us that the numbers are good for nothing. And we have Maria Luís Albuquerque to also tell us who has spent 80% of execution budget for this year in the first six months and it’s okay, for nothing we fear, “joked the candidate.

” For many years we have been saying that this government too followed Germany and wanted to imitate it to the last detail. But what she bought [Maria Luís Albuquerque], without having realized, was that software that Volkswagen put in cars and disguised toxic emissions, as if he could spend the software by the numbers and they disappear, “stressed Rui Tavares .

several times that the Portuguese Repeating have had enough of a government of “concealment and lies,” candidate accused the executive of the coalition led by Pedro Passos Coelho to pursue a continuous impoverishment strategic, which deserves “to be punished with many years of opposition. “

” We want to defeat this right because vitiated the democratic game, impoverished the country and betrayed the promises which they themselves made to the Portuguese “, said Rui Tavares, noting that” after to give a ride to hell, the debt increased and the deficit is equal. “

At the end of the rally, which also addressed Ana Drago, number two in Lisbon, university professor José Reis, head of list L / TDA by Coimbra, found that “Portugal can not take most if not arredarmos the right hand of power.”

Open registration for the 7th Free Software Marathon in back soon … – Globo.com

Registration for the 7th Free Software Marathon are open in Volta Redonda, in the south of Rio de Janeiro. According to a statement from the advice of the city hall, the event is free and open to the whole community, but the focus is professionals working in the information technology sector. Places are limited and you must register via the Internet

The marathon will be on 2 and 3 October in the auditorium of the Municipal Department of Education, which is in the Niteroi neighborhood -. And will have lectures and workshops – check the schedule below. Among the topics, the speakers will discuss how the use of free software can benefit students and university professors. They are also provided statements of major video editing techniques and videographism

Development:.
Friday (2)
8 am – Discovering Robotics Education
Catiene Fernandes – Professor MS Maria Rosa Rodrigues
8:30 a.m. – Overcoming Challenges to Educational Robotics
Marcia Simone – Implementation of Educational Informatics
9:20 a.m. – Free Software in the Faculty
Santiago Lopes – Don Bosco Educational Association
10:10 – Knowing Project Techniques for Applied Education with Project Libre
Allan Carlos – Sankyu S / A
11am – Generating Presentations with Sozi
Giany Abreu and Sergio Thanks – Municipal Education
14h – Educational Robotics Challenges, Achievement and Big Surprises
Michelle Rezende – Implementation Program in Applied Computer Education
14:30 – Android Integration with Arduino
Giany Abreu and Sergio Thanks – Municipal Education
15:30 – videographism with Free Software
Carlos Eduardo – Designer
16:10 – Feasibility of Graphic Design 100% GNU / Linux
Sami Souza – Illustrator, designer and comic
16:50 – Use of OpenCV in Computer Projects and Robotics
Prof. I Laurentino Twelfth. – University Severino Sombra

Saturday (3)
8 am – Knowing Project Technical Educational
Allan Carlos (Mini-Course) Sankyu S / A
> 8 am – Illustration and Creative Process with GNU / Linux
Sami Souza – Illustrator, designer and comic
8am – installfest Freedom 2015
Thanks Sergio (InstallFest)

Understand how the VW software that fooled the test … – Computerworld

More details emerge from the investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against Volkswagen by using software installed on their diesel vehicles sold in the US between 2008 and 2015 to “cheat” tests of greenhouse gas emissions and emit 10 to 40 times above the permitted level pollutants.

Since last Friday, 9/18, when the research information was disclosed, the company admitted to practice; its CEO, Martin Winterkorn, resigned from office; and found that 482,000 cars affected in the US turned into nearly 11 million VW vehicles around the world and that the company should face fines of at least $ 18 billion.

In this Friday, 9/25, the board of Volkswagen is meeting to appoint a new CEO, who will possibly be Matthias Müller, executive 62 years who now leads the Porsche company is also part of the VW group

Details on how the software installed by the automaker deceived the pollutant emission test. – in case the so-called nitrogen oxides (NOx), gases highly toxic generated by burning fossil fuels – are included in the letter from the EPA for VW dated September 18

According to the EPA, “the position of the steering wheel, the vehicle speed, the time that the. motor was turned on and barometric pressure – all very specific indicators of an emissions test – functioned as an activation trigger for the ‘cheating device.’ ” Essentially the electronic control module of the vehicle (ECM) was changed to work in “clean” mode during the test run period.

“Miracle” technology

Kirk Wennerstrom, director of marketing at Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, a company specializing in ‘vintage’ cars in the town of Greenwich, Connecticut (USA), explains that the EPA tests involving the simulation of a number of different speeds, sudden stops and starts and simple. “What VW did was more or less as an average student hire a nerd to pass him and gabaritar the entrance exam.”

To meet the exhaust emission specifications, car manufacturers diesel injecting a special fluid called AdBlue into the exhaust stream that catalyzes the NOx fumes. This feature reduces indeed the pollutant emissions to the level required but adds weight and cost to cars and compel their owners to bear more expenses of maintenance as from time to time the fluid must be reset.

“The VW was the market say he had found a way to meet the standards without AdBlue, “says Wennerstrom. “Everyone was amazed to innovation and I’m sure that many manufacturers have tried a reverse engineering in VW engines to find out how she was doing.”

left for BMW

In the light of the VW emissions scandal, the BMW’s shares also fell on Thursday after the German magazine Auto Bild published an article saying that one of the diesel vehicles the automaker would emit 11 times more NOx the European standard.

In an official statement responding to Auto Bild, BMW said it “does not manipulate or adulterous gas emission tests.”

France will conduct tests to 100 cars to discover software … – Economic

France is planning to hold tests that involve a sample of 100 vehicles to ensure that the cars on their roads are not equipped with the VW software that changes the performance of diesel engines in terms of emissions.

The advanced news by the newspaper The Guardian reports that after a meeting with automakers Renault and Peugeot Citroën (PSA) and the Minister of Environment of France, Segolene Royal said on television ‘BFM’ that will be held “random testing of a sample of about 100 vehicles to establish whether they are equipped with deceptive software.”

The European Commission encouraged the Member States to conduct investigations at national level after confirmation the minister of the German Transport that were sold in Europe VW cars equipped with the system that handles the results of emissions tests.

“I invite all Member States to conduct investigations at national level” , said Lucia Caudet, the European Commission spokesman, quoted by ‘Bloomberg’ today.

On Tuesday, VW announced that more than 11 million diesel cars worldwide have been equipped to the type of engine that could skew the emissions data.

The German government has also launched an investigation into the matter, because the VW group has a significant weight in the German economy. The German State holds a shareholding of 20% in the VW group.

Tomorrow, the German manufacturer will publish a list of vehicles affected by the manipulation of greenhouse gases in diesel engines, today said a spokesman the company quoted by ‘Efe’. Some models include motor ‘EA 189′ are, for example, “golf”, “Jetta ‘,’ Passat ‘or’ Beetle ‘Volkswagen and Audi A3. There are also models of Seat and Skoda.

Foreign software “sucked most of the ICT investment” in … – SAPO Tek

In the vision John Paul Carvalho, director of Portuguese software house in the last 12 years, “the external software sucked most of the ICT investment” held in the country and so has several negative aspects. Is a strong dependence on foreign solutions and in some cases makes us “hostages solutions that do not work.”

The head of Quidgest refers mainly to public administration, which considers the risks of purchasing depending on the brand continue to be minimized, which favors large multinationals and penalizes domestic companies competing in the same areas. In the case of Quidgest, the domain is the management software.

In the speech that opened the event, this year dedicated to the Strategic Intelligence, John Paul Carvalho admitted that Quidgest should make a stronger role in reporting these cases and considered that “any import of software that we can not avoid was less employment that could create “.

During the same event, throughout the morning also discussed the modernization of public services, John Paul Carvalho materialize the concerns expressed in relation to the choices of the public administration in the area software with the example of RIGORE project – Network Integrated Budget Management and State Resources, controversial for years

The project was won in 2005 by SAP to adopt a single, standard solution for the entire administration. public, that would facilitate the implementation of the POCP (Official Chart of Accounts in the Public Administration) and promote the integration of local and central systems.

The Quidgest stresses that the solution “still not proven,” failed in goals integration and universality, as well as based on a principle that leads to introduction of a monopoly.

Government: Autoeuropa ensures that cars do not have software … – Economic

“The vehicles produced in Portugal in the last year, did not have the incorporation of this ‘kit’ fraudulent,” said Thursday António Pires de Lima, Minister of Economy.

“This was the information given to us by AuroEuropa “added Pires de Lima in the usual press conference after the Council of Ministers.

At issue is the prosecution that has already been made on Volkswagen, BMW and that of Seat introduced a ‘software’ altering the emission of greenhouse gases in environmental testing, which has led to heavy losses in the automotive sector in the stock market and could result in the payment of substantial fines.

It was first Volkswagen to be US accused of tampering with the engine performance in terms of emissions, facing a fine of up to to 18 billion (approximately EUR 15.9 billion). Following this controversy, the CEO of Volkswagen resigned.

When it seemed that the controversy was slowing down, today came the suspect through the ‘Auto Bild’ magazine, specializing in cars, which also BMW X3 xDrive 20d, exceeded European standards Euro 6 emissions during road tests the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) for more than 11 times. Bloomberg advances the ICCT is the same group that led investigations in the US and discovered the fraud in VW cars.

However, “El Pais” reported that too at Seat, the Spanish brand of the German group Volkswagen, installed in more than half a million cars the ‘software’ which is distorting the greenhouse gas emissions.

VW risks pay 71 600 million because of the magic software – Economic

The data falsification scandal in measurements of pollutants emitted by Volkswagen cars (VW), which has already led to the resignation of the group’s CEO, Martin Winterkorn, could cost the German manufacturer more than 80 billion dollars (71, € 6 billion). And it should also rule out the hypothesis of VW take the lead in the world ranking of car brands this year. Accounts are the Focus2move, a consultant specializing in the global automotive industry, which estimates the number of vehicles operating worldwide with software that handles pollutant emissions in diesel vehicles VW will amount to 40 million units, involving Europe and Korea.

“We estimate that the costs to address this problem are between 80 billion and 100 billion dollars [the German group has advanced that would provide a budget of 6, 5 billion euros] with a radical restructuring of all operations and losing not only a world leader but down even the podium of the brands that occupy the global ranking of sales “, advances the Focus2move.

The construction company German is being charged in the United States to tamper with engine performance in terms of emissions to the atmosphere through a ‘software’ embedded in the vehicle, facing a fine of up to to 18 billion dollars (about 15 900 million).

The scandal will force the German manufacturer a period of restructuring which could affect all production units. So says Peter also Ricardo Santos, X-Trade Brokers manager. “The possible restructuring of the group can go through the closure of some production units and, in this scenario, our economy is also affected since the Palmela plant is responsible for a large share of our exports,” said Pedro Ricardo Santos.

Currently, VW Autoeuropa is making an investment of EUR 677 million to implement a new development platform for receiving one or more new models. In July the Portuguese plant stopped production of the VW EOS, which had as one of the top US markets, continuing with the production of the VW Scirocco and MPV VW Sharan and Seat Alhambra.