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Volkswagen boost sales in Scotland despite emissions row
2015-10-06 23:04:27| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Thousands of Volkswagen employees in Wolfburg, Germany on October 6. They have been told that the company will have to contain costs in light of the emissions scandal SALES of the Volkswagen Group cars increased in Scotland last month despite the brand being engulfed by a diesel emissions cheating scandal. The latest car registration figures for north of the Border show that Scots motorists have not been put off buying brand new Volkswagen, Audi, Seat or Skoda vehicles in the wake of the row over "defeat device" software used by the German car giant.
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VW under pressure for answers as emissions scandal deadlines loom
2015-10-06 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hans Dieter Poetsch's first board meeting as chairman of Volkswagen on Wednesday could turn out to be his most important, coming just hours before a deadline set by German regulators and testimony by the company's top U.S. executive in Congress. More than two weeks after the carmaker admitted to cheating U.S. emissions tests, Poetsch will be appointed to the helm of the 20-person supervisory board at a specially convened meeting at the German company's headquarters in Wolfsburg. Sources close to...
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New VW Group CEO: swift and relentless clarification of emissions scandal; technical solution to be presented to authorities
2015-10-06 16:56:22| Green Car Congress
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India leads Asia's dash for coal as emissions blow east
2015-10-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India Deep in the thickly forested hills in its east, India last month started production at what it hopes will in five years be Asia's biggest coal mine. At the open-cast mine, which involves the clearing of more than 18,000 hectares (44,500 acres) of land, noisy excavators are busy digging for coal that will feed a huge power plant being built nearby to fuel India's energy-hungry economy. India is opening a mine a month as it races to double coal output by 2020, putting the world's third-largest...
China Seeks to Peak Emissions Before 2030 Deadline, Says Analyst
2015-10-06 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China may aim for an earlier greenhouse gas emissions peak before its 2030 deadline, putting a greater onus on Australia to work with its key trading partner on renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, says a leading Chinese analyst. Qi Ye, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing, said that Chinese policymakers were striving to ensure emissions peaked ahead of a schedule agreed in a joint climate deal with the US earlier this year. China hopes to peak as early...
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