April 12th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The head of the prominent German environmental advocacy group DUH, Juergen Resch, was recently quoted as saying that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was being "remotely controlled" by the country's auto industry
April 11th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The settlement talks between the US Justice Department + California Air Resources Board and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in relation to purported diesel vehicle emissions fraud are now in an "advanced" phase, the court-appointed advisor overseeing the process revealed yesterday
April 11th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The federal government of Germany is looking to avoid the diesel car bans and usage restrictions in the country — on every level of government, whether regional or city level — German Chancellor Angela Merkel was quoted as saying on Wednesday
April 11th, 2018 | by James Ayre
On cue, and following earlier reports that the government was considering the creation of a joint fund with auto manufacturers to finance diesel car retrofits so as to lower emissions, Germany's Transport Minister has denied that any such actions had been considered
April 9th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The government of Germany is now considering the creation of a new joint-fund with the country's auto manufacturers as a means of funding the retrofit of diesel cars in the country so as to reduce emissions
April 6th, 2018 | by James Ayre
Diesel car sales in the UK fell by over a third in March on the back of continuing talk of possible selective diesel car bans as well as continuing fallout from the Volkswagen diesel emissions cheating scandal. That's according to new figures from the UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT)
April 6th, 2018 | by Nicolas Zart
What do you do with 294,000 dirty, polluting diesel cars you have to remove from the streets? Volkswagen has had to figure that out as it has bought back dieselgate cars and held them as they await government-approved modification to fix the original technical cheats and high emissions
April 5th, 2018 | by James Ayre
Following the recent ruling by a court in Germany that cities there have the right to ban diesel cars as a means of improving air quality, the share of the country's total auto market held by diesel cars has been falling sharply.
April 3rd, 2018 | by James Ayre
As a method of perhaps trying to stop diesel car sales in the country from dropping, Volkswagen has unveiled a new program in its home market that will offer customers the option of replacing a purchased diesel car with a replacement if diesel car restrictions or bans go into effect and they are affected.
March 31st, 2018 | by James Ayre
Speaking in a recent interview, the new finance minister of Germany was quoted as saying that everything possible must be done to avoid the imposition of diesel car bans in the country's cities
March 29th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The legal battle between lawyers representing more than 50,000 Volkswagen diesel cars owners in the UK and the German firm in question began on Tuesday, in London’s High Court, reportedly.
March 28th, 2018 | by James Ayre
Following numerous lawsuits filed against its fellow Germany-based auto manufacturers in relation to diesel vehicle emissions cheating in the US, BMW is now being sued for similar reasons as well
March 18th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The new transport minister in Germany has been quoted as saying that he opposes the banning of diesel cars and opposes forcing auto manufacturers to retrofit old diesel cars so that they meet current emissions standards, but also that he is not a "buddy" of the auto manufacturers
March 13th, 2018 | by James Ayre
A new analysis from the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) has (again) confirmed as much -- with Volkswagen diesel cars being found to use up to 14% more fuel after being recalled and "fixed" than previously. Even after the software fix in the vehicles in question was implemented, NOx emissions were still over 400% higher than the levels seen in lab testing
March 9th, 2018 | by James Ayre
Nitrogen oxides (NOx), a form of pollution closely associated with diesel fuel combustion in diesel cars and trucks, cause the early death of around 6,000 people a year in Germany, the country's Federal Environmental Agency has revealed.
March 2nd, 2018 | by James Ayre
With news of the ruling on Tuesday by a court in Germany that individual cities have the right to ban diesel cars still reverberating throughout the media, the administration of Angela Merkel has reportedly been making the rounds assuring those in the country that widespread bans of diesel cars were unlikely.
March 1st, 2018 | by James Ayre
The largest auto parts supplier in the world, Bosch, has decided that it won't be manufacturing its own electric vehicle batteries, despite the booming of the sector -- as the billions of euros of investment that would be required would pose too much of a risk to the company
January 26th, 2018 | by James Ayre
We reported a few months back on the news that the German environmental group Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) was filing lawsuits against a number of cities in the country, with the aim being to force the ban of Volkswagen diesel cars that are still releasing excessively high levels of emissions
December 6th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Remember Dieselgate? Independent researchers in West Virginia strapped a portable exhaust gas analyzer to a Volkswagen turbodiesel and found its tailpipe emissions were way out of whack with the results obtained in laboratory testing. That one finding has now cost Volkswagen more than $20 billion in fines and penalties and that total is still rising. Now, BMW may be the next company to find itself in the fake diesel emissions soup
November 27th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The fall of the diesel car in Europe is continuing at pace, with a market share of just 41.4% achieved in October 2017, owing to a 9.9% year-on-year decline in sales volume. That's based on the most recent figures from JATO Dynamics
November 24th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The UK will, from April 2018, increase the amount of tax paid by those registering a diesel car for the first time that does not meet the latest emissions standards, the UK finance minister has revealed
November 1st, 2017 | by James Ayre
Even when they are powered exclusively by the "dirtiest" grid-provided electricity in the world, plug-in electric vehicles are responsible for a smaller greenhouse gas footprint than diesel cars are, according to a new lifecycle analysis from VUB University (Brussels) and Transport & Environment (T&E)
September 30th, 2017 | by James Ayre
During the first half of 2017, sales figures for petrol/gas-powered cars in Europe surpassed those of diesel-powered cars, for the first time since back in 2009, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) has revealed
