The company said it worked with monitor Larry D. Thompson since 2017 to design and implement compliance programs aimed at preventing behaviour like that evidenced by the scandal. The company made cars rigged to cheat on U.S. diesel emissions tests, and paid more than $33 billion in fines and settlements.
The Wolfsburg-based carmaker said in a statement that steps taken during the monitoring period included a uniform code of conduct across all its businesses, an expanded whistleblower system and establishing a top-level compliance committee. Volkswagen's former CEO Martin Winterkorn faces a future trial on criminal fraud charges in Germany in connection with the 2015 scandal and also has been charged in the United States along with other former Volkswagen executives in the United States.Volkswagen diesel cars are parked in a storage lot near a VW dealership in Salt Lake City, Sept. 23, 2015.
So to put this horrifying scandal in perspective, VW vehicles emitted more nox than was allowed in certain scenarios. To fix it they took an engine getting 60 mpg and reduced it to 40 mpg. Meanwhile in the real world not obsessed with minimal increments of nox outputs
what i want to know is when will they start making TDIs or any diesel again diesel gas, more energy per drop, less time, money wasted refining it, safer then gas too (very hard to light on fire by comparison), also more reliable engines. gas cars should have never existed
“Scandal”? The proper terminology is FRAUD