the day 11 million cars admitted, under oath, that they had been lying to the sky.
means a 2015 scandal in which volkswagen installed software to cheat emissions tests, making dirty diesel engines look clean only when they knew they were being watched.
from epa investigators, tipped off by a west virginia university study, found vw diesels emitted up to 40 times the legal nitrogen oxide limit on the road despite passing lab tests; the culprit was a defeat device that detected testing conditions and throttled emissions only then, coining the watergate-style suffix gate almost instantly.
jetta tdi recall — flagship cheating model, recalled across the us in 2016
epa notice of violation — issued september 18 2015, triggering the collapse
oliver schmidt case — vw engineer sentenced to 7 years in a us court, 2017
audi and porsche — same defeat device found in sister brands under vw group