Post by PG on Apr 5, 2019 18:18:37 GMT
According to press reports, the EU competition authorities have found evidence that VAG, BMW and Merc colluded to keep anti-pollution tech in ICE engines at a certain level, to avoid competing with each other.
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/bmw-daimler-and-vw-found-guilty-emissions-collusion
And from a DT online article today -
Regulators are concentrating their investigation on selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems, which reduce the amount of nitrogen oxide pumped out by diesel cars by injecting does of urea - also known as AdBlue - into the exhaust.
The Commission believes the car companies “co-ordinated their AdBlue dosing strategies, AdBlue tank size and refill ranges between 2006 and 2014 with the common understanding that they thereby limited AdBlue-consumption and exhaust gas cleaning effectiveness”.
It is also looking into whether the car makers worked together to avoid or delay introducing “Otto” particle filters that cut down on harmful particle emissions from exhaust gases of petrol cars.....
......Daimler tipped off the Commission to potential collusion, and is likely to escape a financial penalty under the regulator’s whistleblower policy.
So it appears that Daimler threw the rest under the bus, which rather means that the others' defence statements will make "interesting" reading.
10% fine of revenues anybody (the maximum penalty)? Probably not. After all, the EU has never fined VW for the diesel fixing scam, so I expect a slap on the wrists will be administered.
However, if the Americans think this might have affected the US market, Trump will wet himself with joy as he slaps on multi-billion fines.
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/bmw-daimler-and-vw-found-guilty-emissions-collusion
And from a DT online article today -
Regulators are concentrating their investigation on selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems, which reduce the amount of nitrogen oxide pumped out by diesel cars by injecting does of urea - also known as AdBlue - into the exhaust.
The Commission believes the car companies “co-ordinated their AdBlue dosing strategies, AdBlue tank size and refill ranges between 2006 and 2014 with the common understanding that they thereby limited AdBlue-consumption and exhaust gas cleaning effectiveness”.
It is also looking into whether the car makers worked together to avoid or delay introducing “Otto” particle filters that cut down on harmful particle emissions from exhaust gases of petrol cars.....
......Daimler tipped off the Commission to potential collusion, and is likely to escape a financial penalty under the regulator’s whistleblower policy.
So it appears that Daimler threw the rest under the bus, which rather means that the others' defence statements will make "interesting" reading.
10% fine of revenues anybody (the maximum penalty)? Probably not. After all, the EU has never fined VW for the diesel fixing scam, so I expect a slap on the wrists will be administered.
However, if the Americans think this might have affected the US market, Trump will wet himself with joy as he slaps on multi-billion fines.