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As a punishment for pollution from Volkswagen's cars after the automaker cheated on diesel-emissions tests, a national remediation fund and a separate one for California is likely to be established. Volkswagen Group is now in talks with U.S. authorities on this matter.The national fund would be administered by the Environmental Protection Agency and used to promote clean transportation throughout the U.S. The other would be run by California to promote zero-emission vehicles in the state. Negotiations are continuing and many details are still being determined. Through a...
Falling gasoline prices are hitting the residual values of used hybrids and electrics. For example the Nissan Leaf cars were sold just over 90,000 copies in the US. That means a lot of them are now on the used market. So many, in fact, that you can find them for crazy low prices all over the country.Electric vehicles are increasingly becoming popular with rising awareness about climate change and improving EV technology. These alternatively fueled vehicles not only fight pollution and emit less greenhouse gas emissions, but are starting to get competitive with fossil fuel-based vehicles due to...
A new Emissions scandal may be brewing in Europe. According to Reuters OPEL (under GM) will have to go through a new extensive testing regarding the Zafira Minivan, because it has been stated that it is violating European pollution standards. This comes after “Green” activists’ claims that the Zafira Minivan has excessive NOx (Mono-Nitrogen Oxide) emissions.NOx is a heavy atmosphere pollutant produced during combustion at high temperatures and does form part of acid rain. During tests performed by the University of Applied Sciences in...
According to Reuters News Agency Ford Motor Company has released plans on a strong investment of $1.8 Billion (11.4 Billion Yuan) spread over a period of five years to expand R&D in China. This news confirms the direct and concerted effort made by the US Motor giant carmaker in order to secure for itself a rather large slice of the world’s largest auto market, still untapped by some major players. Ford now stands as the fifth-largest foreign automaker in China. It follows GM, Volkswagen AG, Hyundai, and Nissan. However, Ford has had a rapidly ascending ga...
Because of the emissions scandal Volkswagen's U.S. sales are already drastically falling down. The consequences will also spread over the individual owner of diesel-powered VWs when trying to sell their vehicles on the used car market. Even though sales are otherwise on track to be extremely vigorous, but due to the VW dealerships' prohibition from selling 2-liter diesel engine vehicles, Volkswagen Group of America's sales are dropping continuously. Sales already fell with 5.2 percent in September and until the end of the month they will decrease at least 2 % more accordi...