Sentences with phrase «diesel emission crisis»
A few months later, the Volkswagen diesel emission crisis broke out.
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EMISSIONS - Because diesel fuel is heavier and oilier than gasoline it can be more polluting, earning a reputation for sootiness when it came into wider U.S. automotive use during the 1970's oil crisis.
Volkswagen has been in full crisis mode since the revelation in September that it was cheating U.S. regulators on diesel emissions.
Elsewhere, VW CEO Matthias Muller in an interview Wednesday announced plans to launch a recall in January of millions of cars around the world involved in the automaker's diesel - emissions testing crisis.
As a number of regulatory bodies have launched investigations into certain automakers» use of auxiliary emissions control devices and millions of VW Automotive Group vehicles are under recall, the crisis has not made a significant dent in the sales of diesel cars in Europe, which still make up a large chunk of the entire vehicle population in Western and Eastern Europe.
Dieselgate is the coverall tag given the Volkswagen's multi-billion dollar crisis, which deliberately cheated on the NOx emissions of almost 11 million four - cylinder diesel cars between 2008 and 2015.