WRITTEN BY MICHAEL BUSCHBACHER AND JAMES CONDE ON JAN 17, 2024. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
The DOE-Approved EV-Mileage Cheating Scandal
It’s hard to think of a worse environmental scandal in recent years than Volkswagen’s 2015 diesel emissions cheating.
The German automaker was rightly pursued by regulators, enforcement agencies, and class-action lawyers.
The scandal ended up costing Volkswagen an estimated $33 billion in fines and financial settlements—and revealed that diesel emissions cheating was endemic. [emphasis, links added]
In 2020 Daimler AG made a $1.5 billion settlement over emissions cheating in Mercedes-Benz diesel vehicles. (One of us helped secure that settlement.) Last year engine maker Cummins agreed to pay $1.7 billion to settle claims that it skirted diesel-emissions standards.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-doe-approved-ev-mileage-cheating-scandal/
