Maybe they calculated the risk, and thought it would be cheaper to set money aside for future legal settlements & buybacks, and just hope they got away with it for few years, than to actually invest (large amounts of) money into new Diesel tech that would do the job.
(Too soon??? :tongue: )
Just read that each pound of N2O has 300 times the climate warming effect as a pound of CO2. So, 35x N2O times 300x effect equals huge climate damage. Maybe California could sue VW for the cost of the wildfires this year (and for the next 100 years or so).A good follow-up 10 questions and answers on the Green Car Reports website:
VW Diesel Emissions Recall: What You Need To Know In 10 Questions
My favorite part:
We suspect the EPA will want to put Volkswagen's rotting head on a pike on the walls of the town, to discourage the blatant, flagrant arrogance that the company appears to have displayed.
Kamala Harris is the current Attorney General in California. She is running for the U.S. Senate. She just essentially won that upcoming election. She is going to go after these guys so hard they will wish their heads were rotting on spikes in the Mohave desert. The talking heads on CBNC this morning were already playing down the possible fine, saying it would be just a "fraction" of the potential $18 billion number being thrown around. I'll be e-mailing Kamala, the Gov, and all my representatives shortly requesting the maximum possible penalty that the state of California can extract from these nitwits. I wouldn't be surprised if the state attempts to preclude the company from selling any cars in the state. This is unprecedented. There are a lot of people who are going to be very unhappy knowing that the VW's driving by their homes the last 7 years have been belching out 35x the amount of NOx allowable under the law.
They are done. Stick a fork in them.
RT
Just read that each pound of N2O has 300 times the climate warming effect as a pound of CO2. So, 35x N2O times 300x effect equals huge climate damage. Maybe California could sue VW for the cost of the wildfires this year (and for the next 100 years or so).A good follow-up 10 questions and answers on the Green Car Reports website:
VW Diesel Emissions Recall: What You Need To Know In 10 Questions
My favorite part:
We suspect the EPA will want to put Volkswagen's rotting head on a pike on the walls of the town, to discourage the blatant, flagrant arrogance that the company appears to have displayed.
Kamala Harris is the current Attorney General in California. She is running for the U.S. Senate. She just essentially won that upcoming election. She is going to go after these guys so hard they will wish their heads were rotting on spikes in the Mohave desert. The talking heads on CBNC this morning were already playing down the possible fine, saying it would be just a "fraction" of the potential $18 billion number being thrown around. I'll be e-mailing Kamala, the Gov, and all my representatives shortly requesting the maximum possible penalty that the state of California can extract from these nitwits. I wouldn't be surprised if the state attempts to preclude the company from selling any cars in the state. This is unprecedented. There are a lot of people who are going to be very unhappy knowing that the VW's driving by their homes the last 7 years have been belching out 35x the amount of NOx allowable under the law.
They are done. Stick a fork in them.
RT
That article is a great summary. It mentions the urea / AdBlue theory that I mentioned and also the curious fact that VW appeared to have kept the cheat in the updated engine with the urea system. I see two possibilities: those engines aren't affected or VW carried over the software (too lazy or they wanted to keep the performance boost).
I'm not sure about that... assuming the other guys are compliant (BMW, M-B), the technology is feasible. If bringing the culprit models into compliance is really just about AdBlue and perhaps detuning slightly, even those models could continue. Since 2000 I've owned three VW diesels (Jettas and a Passat) and a '09 E Class diesel (no AdBlue). By wife traded her 2010 A3 TDI for a newer '15 TDI. They've all been great cars, with great performance and economy. And owners are for the most part very devoted to their TDI's.
