Volkswagen
The board of management has allegedly decided a billion program to exchange old diesel and scrap.
Wolfsburg / New York Originally wanted Volkswagen just To offer a premium to customers in 14 cities with particularly polluted airwhen they trade their old diesels for clean models. But apparently the Wolfsburg car company plans to introduce this offer nationwide. This reported the “picture” on Wednesday.
As the newspaper citing that VW-Umfeld writes, the board of management has decided on a corresponding billion program. In addition to an exchange premium, VW wants not only all diesel vehicles of the brands VW, Seat, Skoda and Audi with the exhaust standards 1 to 4 take back, but also scrapped.
Car owners who opt for an exchange, according to “Bild” receive a premium, the amount of which depends on the model and starts at 1500 euros. For the particularly large models it should give up to 10,000 euros. The aim is to prevent impending driving bans.
According to DPA information, in the 14 particularly polluted cities, in addition to exchange premiums, there should be a special program for diesel vehicles with emission standards 4 and 5. This includes, according to “image” cheaper financing. A Volkswagen spokesman announced that the company would comment on Thursday on the details of the exchange program.
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In the recently featured Diesel concept of the Federal Government In addition to exchanges, hardware retrofits for Euro 5 diesel are foreseen as a way to improve the air quality in highly polluted cities.
Earlier it had become known that Volkswagen wants to offer over one million diesel owners from 1 November to exchange premiums. The planned premiums should be on average at about 4000 euros for diesel emission standards Euro 1 to Euro 4 – and at 5,000 euros for Euro 5 diesel.
Also Daimler has already announced details on exchange premiums for diesel vehicles of all brands with emission standards Euro 1 to 4 and Euro 5 in the “priority regions”. They range between 3000 and 10,000 euros depending on the model. The exchange premium for regions outside the “priority regions” will be continued, it said.