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September 23, 2015 02:16 am GMT

The Volkswagen emissions scandal: All you need to know

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Volkswagen recently apologized for deliberately creating software for its TDI diesel engines that cheated EPA emissions testing. While this story is still developing, we've gathered what we know now so that VW owners — and everyone else — could understand the past, present and potential future of this debacle.

How did the emissions issues come to light?

Third-party tests performed by the International Council on Clean Transport (ICCT) uncovered the emissions issues. The tests set out to prove a hypothesis that VW's new generation of TDI diesel engines were cleaner than standard gasoline engines but unwittingly exposed the German carmaker's deception Read more...

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