The German car maker Volkswagen presented on Wednesday the first technical solutions to adapt to the norms cars equipped with software that adulterava the results of pollutant emissions.
According to the company, the measure will require less than an hour of work in the shop.
The Volkswagen admitted equipped million diesel engines with software capable of falsifying the measurements of nitrogen oxide emissions, as well as the emission levels carbon dioxide in another 800,000 gasoline vehicles.
“The Volkswagen group presented the KBA (German regulator) its concrete technical solutions for the EA-189 engines of 1.6 liters and 2 liters of displacement “said the automaker in a statement.
In the case of 1.2 liters engines, the technical solution will be presented to KBA later this month and” probably consist of a software update. “
Specifically, in vehicles of 1.6 liters should be installed a power converter in the engine, “before the air flow meter.” The repair should take “less than an hour,” says the company.
In the case of two liters, simply an update of the program, which “will require around half an hour’s work.”
After the repairs, the vehicles in question will henceforth observe the limits for nitrogen oxide emissions.
Starting in January, the Volkswagen group, which has 12 brands (including Seat, Skoda , Audi, Porsche and MAN and Scania trucks) is expected to announce a recall of 8.5 million vehicles.
The company’s president, Matthias Müller, said on Monday that the solutions involve more than 90% of the group of vehicles in Europe.
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