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> On Aug 23, 2019, at 1:29 PM, Tom Keenan via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The video explained that the Dieselgate ‘fix’ for a specific Diesel engine 
> used in at least one model of VW only was enabled between a specific outside 
> air temperature range, 5 to 35 c if I remember correctly. If the temp was 
> less than 5c, the emissions fix was turned off. If above 35c it was turned 
> off. In many parts of Europe (where this specific vehicle was sold) the 
> emissions fix would be turned off much of the time. 
> 
> Tom Keenan
> 
>>> On Aug 23, 2019, at 10:37 AM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 23 Aug 2019 at 16:27, Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote:
>>> 
>>> VW is at it again cheating on emissions via software again.  This time it is
>>> temperature and again they got caught. 
>> 
>> Sorry, I didn't watch the video clip; I prefer to read about such things.  
>> Is it this?
>> 
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/business/audi-vw-emissions-scandal.html
>> 
>> "Newly uncovered documents viewed by The New York Times show that 
>> Volkswagen´s Audi luxury-car unit was more deeply involved in developing the 
>> emissions cheating scheme than previously known, and continued to sell 
>> vehicles with illegal software even after the scandal became public ... Most 
>> of the recent set of documents were prepared in 2007 and 2008 ...
>> 
>> "So ingrained was the use of illegal software that Audi continued to use it 
>> even after American authorities formally accused Volkswagen of emissions 
>> cheating in September 2015. In December 2017, according to documents that 
>> did not become public until earlier this month, German regulators ordered 
>> Audi to recall 150,000 [European-sold] Q5 midsize S.U.V.s with 3-liter 
>> diesel engines because they contained defeat devices."
>> 
>> From what I've read recently, almost all European automakers were doing the 
>> same thing as VW/Audi, using similar onboard software that detected when the 
>> vehicle was under test and kept emissions within legal limits only then.  
>> 
>> They got away with it for years, because the EU emissions certification 
>> program is pretty much broken. Remember, VW was collared not in Germany (fat 
>> chance), but right here in the US.  Clearly, "regulatory capture" isn't 
>> unique to the US.
>> 
>> This may be one reason that much of Western Europe is now pushing hard for 
>> EVs and against Diesels. 
>> 
>> Please correct me if I've misstated anything in this post.
>> 
>> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
>> EVDL Administrator
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