VW says it did not lie about CO2 emissions of some cars
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Embattled auto giant Volkswagen yesterday was offered some respite from the massive emissions-cheating scandal it is currently engulfed in when it said it had not lied about the carbon dioxide emissions of some of its cars.
The news sent VW shares sharply higher on the Frankfurt stock exchange, even if the much wider scandal related to the pollution-cheating software installed in 11 million diesel cars worldwide is still a long way from being resolved.
VW was plunged into its deepest ever crisis in September when it admitted to installing so-called defeat devices into diesel engines to skew the results of tests for nitrogen oxide emissions.
Nitrogen oxide is a pollutant associated with respiratory problems.
That admission has triggered both regulatory and criminal investigations in a range of countries, including Germany, all of which are still ongoing.
But in addition to this, the auto giant revealed at the beginning of November that 鈥渋nconsistencies鈥 had been uncovered on its cars鈥 carbon emissions as well, affecting not only diesel engines but petrol engines, too.
Carbon dioxide or CO2 is a greenhouse gas which traps heat from the sun and is blamed for man-made climate change. And tackling CO2 is becoming a rising priority in many countries, especially in Europe, where cars are often taxed according to their carbon emissions.
The two issues are completely separate and are being treated independently from each other by investigators.
But VW appears to be off the hook on the lesser issue of carbon emissions.
鈥淛ust a month after questions relating to the CO2 figures measured on some of the group鈥檚 models arose, Volkswagen has largely concluded the clarification of the matter,鈥 the carmaker said in a statement.
鈥淔ollowing extensive internal investigations and measurement checks, it is now clear that almost all of these model variants do correspond to the CO2 figures originally determined,鈥 the statement said.
鈥淭his means that these vehicles can be marketed and sold without any limitations. The suspicion that the fuel consumption figures of current production vehicles had been unlawfully changed was not confirmed,鈥 VW said.
VW said it had presented its latest findings to the government and the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA).
Initially, the group had said that around 800,000 vehicles were under suspicion.
But the deviations found in the figures for only nine model variants 鈥渁mounted to a few grammes of CO2 on average.鈥
And here, only around 36,000 vehicles were actually concerned.
The CO2 affair would therefore have no consequences for customers, VW continued.
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