Volkswagen gasoline vehicles are equipped with cheating software. Exhaust emission data fraud involves Audi and Porsche.

　　CCTV News:In 2015, the German auto giant "Volkswagen" was exposed to the scandal of "falsification of diesel vehicle exhaust emission data", and the storm has not been smooth so far. Recently, another German media revealed that "Volkswagen’s gasoline vehicles are also suspected of falsifying exhaust emission data"!

　　Germany’s "Pictorial" reported that the engineers of Volkswagen disclosed to the investigators that "Volkswagen also tampered with several models of gasoline engine, and equipped with corresponding cheating software, so as to achieve ‘ Reduce the real exhaust emission data and fuel consumption data ’ Objective This is similar to the method used by Volkswagen in the "diesel vehicle exhaust data fraud scandal". The Pictorial report also said that these engines are mainly used in Volkswagen’s brands Audi and Porsche.

　　The German Ministry of Transport denied that the test found no problems.

　　However, in response to the "Pictorial" report, the German Ministry of Transport issued a statement on the 2 nd to deny it. According to the statement, the contents reported in Pictorial are inaccurate. The German federal motor vehicle management department has tested Volkswagen gasoline vehicles of related brands, and so far no suspicion of "manipulating exhaust emissions and fuel consumption data" has been found.

　　It is understood that after the "emission gate" scandal of diesel vehicles was exposed in 2015, 36,000 gasoline vehicles produced by Volkswagen were also found to have excessive exhaust emissions and were handed over to independent testing institutions for testing. However, after the completion of the test, the German government did not issue relevant rectification notices to the public.

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　　In September, 2015, American regulators revealed that Volkswagen illegally installed cheating software on the diesel vehicles it produced, so as to greatly reduce the exhaust emission data, thus reaching the standard in the automobile exhaust emission test in the United States — — It is said that the manipulated exhaust emission data can differ from the real data by up to 40 times.

　　After investigation, at that time, Volkswagen installed this cheating software on about 11 million diesel vehicles sold around the world. For this reason, Volkswagen had to pay a fine of up to 22.6 billion euros and vehicle maintenance costs. In addition, many senior executives of Volkswagen were also prosecuted for allegedly "deliberately concealing the truth from the public".

　　Since then, many German car companies have also been found to have the problem of diesel vehicle exhaust detection fraud, and the reputation and reputation of the German car industry have been seriously damaged by the scandal.