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Volkswagen has been into a difficult period the latest 2 years, after being caught cheating on emissions, but now the automaker is selling cars with diesel engines in U.S. again. Customers lined up to buy two-year-old Volkswagen diesel cars when the automaker unexpectedly resumed sales in April. Many VW customers may still want the fuel efficient diesels — also called TDIs — but the few thousand cars left at dealerships after the automaker resolved its emission-fraud crisis are the last ones the automaker plans to sell in the U.S. One dealership, in Troy, Mich., got five...
Fiat Chrysler is gonna be sued by the Justice Department if the talks fail to resolve differences over the automaker’s alleged violations of U.S. clean-air rules with its diesel vehicles. Expect for the lawsuit to be filled this week. The suit would mark an escalation of the U.S. government’s months-long inquiry and could expose the automaker to significant penalties. The suit being prepared alleges the company used illegal defeat devices, one of the people said. Such devices -- software in computerized systems -- improperly disable pollution controls to enhance per...
California environmental regulators, taking a defiant stand against President Donald Trump on climate change, reaffirmed their commitment Thursday to tough standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars. The California Air Resources Board voted unanimously to move ahead with progressively stricter tailpipe emissions regulations, along with a separate mandate that requires automakers to sell more zero-emissions vehicles. The vote on greenhouse gas restrictions suggests a potentially bruising legal battle with the White House could be coming. Trump last week ordered the U.S. E...
We’ve been waiting for this happening and here it comes, Donald Trump will announce the new fuel efficiency rules when he will meet with automaker chiefs this week. He will be visiting an autonomous vehicle testing facility based in Detroit this Wednesday and also will meet with some major automakers CEOs who asked for revising the rules of Obama’s administration. The administration has decided to review the feasibility of the 2022 through 2025 vehicle emissions rules, after the Obama administration moved in its final days to keep them. The trip is focused on j...
Gasoline and oil prices just like always determined the future and the present of electric and plug-in car sales. Back in 2014 when oil prices fell down, hybrid vehicles took a hit along with their risidual values in several global markets. Plug-in electrified vehicles – battery electric and plug-in hybrid – saw similar trends emerging at first. However, PEVs have seen unit sales rise significantly in the U.S., Europe, and China during the past two years – as gasoline prices have stayed down. It appears that other market dynamics are influencing PEV sales now more ...
