The possible cartel of the big German auto maker media is involved, according to reports, the supplier Bosch. In addition, employees at Audi years ago on the risks of exhaust gas Manipulation.
As the “Bild am Sonntag” reported on Friday, citing internal documents, should have made the group the car manufacturers in a joint meeting with a proposal on how they could solve problems of Diesel-exhaust gas cleaning fast and cheap. In the round, the car manufacturer had reported difficulties with the deposits of the urea solution AdBlue and possible solutions. They had been effective, but with a high cost. Bosch have then proposed a “small measure to the calls”, but it is still unclear whether they reduce perhaps the cleaning effect.
Bosch stressed that no requests from German or European competition authorities. “Since we have no Details on the studied property, known behavior, we can’t make it,” it said.
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Sharp criticism of the auto industry
According to the “mirror” appears in the Name, Bosch, in a paper with cases of possible infringements of Competition rules, submitted by Volkswagen last week, the German Federal cartel office. The “Bild am Sonntag” quoted from an E-Mail from the year 2008 to former Audi Manager. In it States that the participants of the meeting confirmed, “not to mention this topic in any Form to the US authorities EPA and CARB, in order not to jeopardize the start-up in the United States”.
Audi was afraid of early detection of the Manipulation
According to a media report, the experts at Audi have pointed out already years ago, internally, the exhaust gas manipulations in the United States and is a serious penalties warned. “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, NDR and WDR cited on Friday from an Audi document on 11. October 2013: The “core risk” exists in a detection of the relevant Software in the case of diesel vehicles, by the US authorities. This could lead to high fines.
The technical experts suggested that this Software as soon as possible. This has not happened, however. Instead, it was further manipulated, to the US authorities two years later, the violations of law in the case of Volkswagen and the VW subsidiary Audi revealed.
The discovery of this switch-off Software, which reduces the exhaust gas purifier in the normal operation of the vehicles, was triggered in the US, the Diesel scandal at Volkswagen. The Stuttgart Prosecutor’s office determines because of the suspicion of abetting fraud in a possible Manipulation of the exhaust-gas aftertreatment of Volkswagen vehicles to Bosch Employees. VW had to pay for the violations in the case of Audi, in the US penalties and damages in the amount of more than 20 billion dollars.
zdh/dk (dpa, afp)