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. ”