German carmaker Audi created hypothetic drubbing devices which cut emissions in 1999, eld onward climb company Volkswagen exploited them to rig diesel emissions tests , German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Tuesday.
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VW, Europe’s largest automaker, admitted in September it had manipulated the engines of most 11 1000000000000 diesel cars , including its VW, Audi, Porsche, Skoda and Merchantman brands.
Engineers at Audi developed packet able-bodied of cut certainly engine functions in 1999, but it was ne'er ill-used by the VW opulence role, the newspaper said in an access discharge of an article due to be published on Wednesday, which cited industriousness and fellowship sources.
Six age aft, when VW engineers at the firm’s Wolfsburg hq were otiose to commonwealth n oxide emissions below sound thresholds, they started to demonstrate the software developed by Audi, Handelsblatt aforementioned.
VW and Audi both declined to glossary on the report, citing ongoing investigations by US law quick Jones Day into the diesel emissions appall.
VW has said Jones Day will publish a “substantial report” on its findings by the end of April.
VW’s supervisory plump is due to discussion the capableness costs of the emissions appal and authority 2015 earnings on 22 April , a day aft a deadline for VW and USregulators to handgrip a pull US cars fitted with the box.
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