Years after the Dieselgate scandal, the European Union has fined the Volkswagen Group after colluding to slow cleaner emission technology.
The Volkswagen group is made up of Audi, BMW, Porsche.
Car manufacturing company Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler also spent years illegally colluding to slow the deployment of cleaner emissions technology said the European Union.
The European Union fined Volkswagen Group $595 million, BMW $442 million. That is a combined $1 billion fee, Daimler evaded a proposed $863 million fine.
The Daimler blew the whistle about the illegal collusion, revealing it to the European Union.
“The five-car manufacturers Daimler, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche possessed the technology to reduce harmful emissions beyond what was legally required under the EU emission standards,” said the EU executive branch.
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In the same statement, “But they avoided to compete on using this technology’s full potential to clean better than what is required by law.”
“So today’s decision is about how legitimate technical cooperation went wrong. And we do not tolerate it when companies collude.” A Der Spiegel report prompted the European Union fine, the EU claimed these fined companies agreed on details like the dimensions of “AdBlue.” tanks.
AdBlue is a common solution when mixed with a diesel car’s exhaust helps to neutralize harmful pollutants.
These affected companies never implemented this technology but never did according to the EU, hence the fine.
Volkswagen’s Dieselgate scandal is different, they installed software on their cars falsifying pollutants limits to trick environmental regulators that they were compliant. The company paid a fine of $25 billion and more; currently changing with its line of electric cars; the new MEB modular EV platform. Volkswagen hoped to be fully electric by 2035.
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