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How Audi worked the V6 diesel emissions cheat: a 22-minute timer
2016-08-09 20:02:08| Extremetech
Most emissions tests run 20 minutes or less, so VW set a timer, a report says: Run the V6 diesel in clean mode for 22 minutes.
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Team Fahrvergnügen used PowerPoint to plot the VW diesel emissions cheat
2016-04-27 19:31:14| Extremetech
A 2006 PowerPoint presentation showed VW execs how the company could cheat the US emissions tests. But at least the PowerPoint was kept short. Give VW credit for that.
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VW CEO was told about emissions crisis a year before admitting to cheat scandal
2016-03-03 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Volkswagens chief executive was told about the companys illegal emissions crisis more than a year before it admitted it was systematically cheating on US regulators tests. The German company admitted on Wednesday that its former CEO Martin Winterkorn was, in May 2014, sent a memo detailing how some VW cars were producing up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide emissions than allowed. In the memo Winterkorn was told about an independent study that found VW cars were producing very high emissions in...
VIDEO: How VW can cheat European tests too
2015-11-23 18:01:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Panorama shows in graphic detail how Volkswagen cheats European tests.
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VW cars 'also cheat EU emissions tests'
2015-11-23 13:38:41| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A lab test carried out for the BBC shows that VW diesel cars programmed with a "defeat device" can cheat the official EU pollution test, as well as the test in the US.
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