Diesel Automobiles: Diesel and Auto Sector

diesel automobiles: This of course also applies to diesel automobiles, according to The Japan Times. This is confirmed by the relevant results from tests by national and international authorities. As revelations about polluting exhaust continue to buffet Germany's all-important auto sector, the Munich-based giant sought to distance itself from what it called the scandalization of diesel motors. ; The fact is that automobiles from the BMW group are not manipulated and comply with the relevant legal requirements, the company said in a statement. Der Spiegel magazine had reported Friday that German carmakers Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Daimler had secretly worked together from the 1990s onward on issues including polluting emissions from diesel vehicles. According to the report, carmakers held innumerable meetings from 2006 onward about diesel exhaust processing systems designed to reduce emissions of harmful nitrogen oxides NOx . Carmakers agreed to install only small tanks of a treatment solution, AdBlue, used to convert the gases into harmless water and nitrogen, as larger tanks would have been more expensive. Volkswagen, which is facing tens of billions of dollars in compensation and fines after admitting in 2015 to cheating on diesel emissions, had reported the cartel to German competition authorities in a letter seen by the weekly, as did Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.