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Volkswagens TDI engines: The muddlers are to be scrapped
The carmaker Volkswagen Show stock market chart apparently wants to scrap nationwide old diesel against payment of a conversion fee. VW wants older diesel vehicles of the brands VW, Seat, Skoda and Audi Show stock market chart not only with the emission standards 1 to 4 take back, but also let scrap and thus really pull out of circulation. This report the “Bild” newspaper and the news agency dpa on Thursday.
Car owners who want to exchange, therefore, receive a premium – this is said to be at least 1500 euros and in the peak and for the particularly large models at up to 10,000 euros. The aim is to prevent impending driving bans.
In 14 cities with particularly polluted air, in addition to the exchange premiums, there should be a special program for diesel cars with emission standards 4 and 5. This includes, according to “image” cheaper financing. A Volkswagen spokesman announced that on Thursday the company will comment on the details of the diesel exchange program.
In the recently presented German government’s diesel concept, hardware retrofitting for Euro 5 diesel is planned alongside exchange actions as a way of improving the air in cities with high pollution levels. The automakers should pay for this. These refuse hardware retrofits but off.
Transport Minister Scheuer rejects fines
The grand coalition is currently arguing over possible billion-fines for carmakers. The background to this is the refusal of the manufacturers to completely cover the costs for possible technical retrofits of older diesel cars. In addition to purchasing incentives for cleaner cars, this is a key element of a package of measures agreed by the Union and the SPD in the fight against driving bans.
Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) rejects fines against automakers. Above all, he relies on buying incentives. The manufacturers would offer “attractive” exchange premiums, it would go to 1.4 million cars and a volume of seven billion euros, he had said last week.
start of the week had become known that Opel with the next German carmaker is in concrete suspicion, the exhaust of diesel vehicles with contentious software features. The Federal Ministry of Transport had announced an official recall for Europe-wide about 100,000 cars of the types Insignia, Cascada and Zafira.
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In addition, the public prosecutor’s office in Munich, the VW subsidiary Audi grunted a fine of 800 million euros. Reason are “deviations from the regulatory requirements” in certain diesel engines.
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