We're up to 11,000,000 worldwide and now there taking a look at the 3.0 diesel from their Audi and Porshe brands. This has a long way to go until it's over. The crazy thing is how they kept fighting to get CARB and the EPA to give them a pass. They begged for the 2016's to be excluded.
EPA needs to tread carefully. It also grants exemptions to certain manufacturers, typically low volume, boutique OE''s.
Someone might view that behavior as a double standard.
VW got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, I can't be 100% certain but I suspect other car manufacturers are guilty of something.
News here say that BMW also in the problem zone ...... if these two - why not then every single other car company??
I they knowingly set up for the false readings there should be no end to the steps they have to take to correct them. They should have to buy back every car/suv they sold and replace with a compliant unit. The cost to retrofit would be very high and time consuming. Her is another side to the EPA story, Last year I was on a Caterpillar advisory board and after our meeting we took a tour of the bulldozer plant. As we were walking through you could see all of the emissions equipment on the engine exhaust systems "Except" the ones painted tan. I had to ask and low and behold they were engines for the D-7 bulldozers our government had ordered. They told them it was not needed on their units and saved the $20,000 plus per unit. What a bunch of Bull! Nothing like a government that has a different set of standards for the people the govern than they do for themselves. "Do as I say not as I Do". As Forest Gump would say, "And that's all I have to say about that".
today I red an article claiming that the very strict diesel emission standard had been set at a time when no US manufacturer had a diesel engine available, so it looked more like a protection for the own industry (not finger pointing, things like this happen in europe as well).
Here my question, what kind of fuel are the trucks in the US using ? Also diesel or regular fuel ? What kind of emission standards exist for trucks ? In Europe this is a minefield of lobbying, also because it will affect prices for everyday goods and nobody wants to be responsible for that. I always wonder when I am behind a truck when they are WOT I barely see something
Here is a fuel summary: http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/fuels/dieselfuels/index.htm
Here too in the US, regs are a direct byproduct of lobbyist influence. That said, I'll go on record saying that the US auto industry has the weakest of any lobby in DC. Pales by comparison in size and effectiveness to that of oil, pharma, banking, agriculture, tech etc. If anyone needed to see a working example of that, just look back a few years and see how many 'friends' the auto industry had when the finance world imploded.