Daimler manipulated emissions in one million cars: report
German luxury automaker Daimler manipulated the engines of around one million diesel vehicles to make them show up less polluting, local media reported Thursday, raising echoes of competitor Volkswagen’s ‘dieselgate’ scandal.
“The Stuttgart-based hard sold vehicles with higher levels of bruising emissions than permitted for almost a entire decade inbetween two thousand eight and 2016,” daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung said.
Along with regional broadcasters NDR and WDR, the newspaper had access to a search warrant from a Stuttgart court permitting prosecutors to raid eleven sites belonging to the Mercedes-Benz and Brainy maker in late May.
Investigators suspect that the world’s largest luxury carmaker used a similar so-called “defeat device” to Volkswagen, which in two thousand fifteen admitted to manipulating emissions readings on some eleven million diesel vehicles worldwide.
Software in the motor runs the emissions treatment system at a higher setting when it detects the vehicle is undergoing regulatory testing.
Investigators believe cars fitted with the OM six hundred forty two and OM six hundred fifty one motors filter out 95-99 percent of harmful nitrogen oxides under test conditions but only inbetween 35-85 percent in real on-road driving.
The motors were built into more than one million cars and vans by Daimler, including C, E and R class Mercedes.
According to the warrant, prosecutors sought to recover emails inbetween ninety nine Daimler employees, one of them a member of the group’s executive board.
Two Daimler employees from the team that created the software are under formal investigation on suspicion of fraud and false advertising.
But officials believe more people were involved and expect suspects will be added to the probe.
Daimler also faces an investigation by the United States Department of Justice, as well as a number of class-action lawsuits accusing it of false advertising.
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Daimler manipulated emissions in one million cars: report
Daimler manipulated emissions in one million cars: report
German luxury automaker Daimler manipulated the engines of around one million diesel vehicles to make them emerge less polluting, local media reported Thursday, raising echoes of competitor Volkswagen’s ‘dieselgate’ scandal.
“The Stuttgart-based stiff sold vehicles with higher levels of bruising emissions than permitted for almost a entire decade inbetween two thousand eight and 2016,” daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung said.
Along with regional broadcasters NDR and WDR, the newspaper had access to a search warrant from a Stuttgart court permitting prosecutors to raid eleven sites belonging to the Mercedes-Benz and Brainy maker in late May.
Investigators suspect that the world’s largest luxury carmaker used a similar so-called “defeat device” to Volkswagen, which in two thousand fifteen admitted to manipulating emissions readings on some eleven million diesel vehicles worldwide.
Software in the motor runs the emissions treatment system at a higher setting when it detects the vehicle is undergoing regulatory testing.
Investigators believe cars fitted with the OM six hundred forty two and OM six hundred fifty one motors filter out 95-99 percent of harmful nitrogen oxides under test conditions but only inbetween 35-85 percent in real on-road driving.
The motors were built into more than one million cars and vans by Daimler, including C, E and R class Mercedes.
According to the warrant, prosecutors sought to recover emails inbetween ninety nine Daimler employees, one of them a member of the group’s executive board.
Two Daimler employees from the team that created the software are under formal investigation on suspicion of fraud and false advertising.
But officials believe more people were involved and expect suspects will be added to the probe.
Daimler also faces an investigation by the United States Department of Justice, as well as a number of class-action lawsuits accusing it of false advertising.
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