Volkswagen has revealed this to the American environmental agency EPA and authorities in the state of California, reports news agency AP Wednesday.
Also, this software would ensure that the emissions system is manipulated during tests that check whether the engines comply with environmental requirements. The engines would seem cleaner during testing than they actually are.
The carmaker would have confirmed that the “emission control device” works differently than the software included in the models made between 2009 and 2015, the previous manipulation was discovered at the news agency.
In this case, it is a method that the catalyst work harder in order to be purified more emissions.
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The regulators in the US since last week at the height of the existence of the software, says a spokesman for Volkswagen to AP . “The supervisors here now reflecting upon, while Volkswagen delivers additional information,” the spokesman said.
The authorities are trying to determine whether this software is installed to affect emission measurements. A spokesman for Environmental EPA indicates “a long list of questions to Volkswagen” to talk about the issue. “We get all the answers, but we have not yet all.”
Wednesday reported the German magazine Der Spiegel which involved at least thirty managers from Volkswagen in manipulating emissions measurements Diesel engines
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