Sentences with phrase «u.s. over its diesel»

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Reports emerged on Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department is poised to file a civil lawsuit against the firm for selling over 100,000 vehicles that emit excess diesel emissions.

Today, a 2017 model year diesel truck or bus sold in the U.S. is over 98 % cleaner than one 17 years ago.

Hans Dieter Poetsch was CFO when scandal broke over cars rigged to cheat on U.S. diesel emissions tests

The surprise is not over the German native's sudden departure, which VW says was «through mutual agreement,» but that Horn was still on the job half a year after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accused the automaker of using a «cheater» device that would make it appear, falsely, that more than 482,000 diesel models sold here between 2009 and 2015 met emissions standards.

They confirmed that, over the next few years, Volkswagen will advance a product offensive in the U.S. that will focus on the Golf, diesel power (beginning with the recently - introduced EA288 TDI engine), and a new three - row SUV.

He takes over from Martin Winterkorn, who resigned earlier this week in the wake of revelations that Volkswagen diesel cars had «cheater» software to evade U.S. emissions regulations.

The search of Audi offices follows the settlement between VW, Audi and Porsche and U.S. regulators and plaintiff groups over the fate of some 80,000 vehicles equipped with 3.0 - liter V6 diesel engines.

Less than a year later it seems the guys over at Temple of VTEC got the scoop from a tipster that the U.S. diesel has been «delayed indefinitely».

Which brings us to the question: Why, with diesel powered sedan sales skyrocketing all over Europe and Canada, do U.S. based drivers continue to ignore the benefits of diesel propulsion as it pertains to the family sedan?

The diesel engine would improve the Frontier's fuel efficiency by more than 35 percent over the current 4.0 V -6-powered version of the truck, said Fred Diaz, Nissan's senior vice president for U.S. sales and marketing, parts and service.

The diesel Volkswagen Touareg may not be for sale in the U.S. any longer, but the automaker is still facing questions over its emissions control software.

Though Continental Maserati does not foresee Ghibli Diesel being approved for American delivery in its current form, U.S. demand for diesel - powered luxury performance continues to grow year over year.

We have yet to receive engine specifications for the U.S. market, but over in Europe, customers have the option between two gasoline engines and three diesels with output ranging anywhere between 113 horsepower and 182 horsepower.

I think the U.S. made a mistake by not favoring the diesel engine over the gasoline engine as has been done in many other countries.

According to Salon.com, which obtained over 300 emails of personal messages between lobbyists and Canadian officials, the CEA is part of a sophisticated public affairs strategy designed to manipulate the U.S. political system by deluging the media with messaging favorable to the tar - sands industry; to persuade key state and federal legislators to act in the extractive industries» favor; and to defeat any attempt to regulate the carbon emissions emanating from gasoline and diesel used by U.S. vehicles.

Jacobson's models, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres, concluded that, even with stringent U.S. and European standards, diesel vehicles could warm the climate more over 100 years than gasoline - powered cars as a result of the relatively higher black carbon content of diesel.