Volkswagen Archives — Page 5 of 5

January 19, 2018 No Responses

Volkswagen delivers 10.7million vehicles in 2017

The Volkswagen Group delivered more vehicles than ever before in fiscal year 2017: 10.74 million customers worldwide chose a vehicle from the Volkswagen Group. As a result, Group deliveries rose 4.3 percent compared with the previous year. At almost...

December 31, 2017 No Responses

Court rejects VW’s bid to suspend emissions audit

Germany’s highest court has rejected a bid by Volkswagen AG to suspend the work of a special auditor appointed to investigate management’s actions in the “Dieselgate” emissions scandal. A three-judge panel did not give an opinion on the merits of...

November 20, 2017 No Responses

VW sets aside $40b for electric vehicles

Volkswagen AG will spend more than 34 billion euros ($40 billion) over the next five years to develop automotive technology for an era of electric robo-taxis. With the unprecedented investment through 2022, Volkswagen is accelerating its push into battery-powe...

August 27, 2017 No Responses

Emissions: Volkswagen engineer jailed

A former Volkswagen engineer who helped develop a device that enabled cars to evade US pollution rules has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to pay $200,000. James Liang, 63, was the first person prosecuted...

August 19, 2017 No Responses

Prosecutors recommend three years in prison for VW engineer

Federal prosecutors in the United States on Friday recommended a three-year prison sentence for Volkswagen AG engineer James Liang for his role in a diesel emissions scandal that has cost the German automaker as much as $25 billion. Liang, who...

August 12, 2017 No Responses

Volkswagen Diesel investigation adds another suspect

German prosecutors investigating the Volkswagen AG diesel-rigging scandal have again expanded the criminal fraud probe by adding another suspect, bringing the total number of people under investigation to 38. Braunschweig prosecutors, who are conducting th...

July 8, 2017 No Responses

Audi manager comes under scrutiny over VW emission scandal

(BBC)-German authorities have arrested an Audi manager in connection with the Volkswagen diesel scandal. This is the first arrest in Germany related to Volkswagen’s emissions-test cheating scandal. Munich prosecutors declined to comment on whether the ar...

April 22, 2017 No Responses

VW diesel whistleblower identified in book

(Auto News)–As Volkswagen’s criminal case closed on Friday, a nagging question persists: Who blew the whistle and first admitted to regulators that VW was lying about its dirty diesels? Volkswagen AG was sentenced in a Detroit courtroom after plea...

March 11, 2017 No Responses

VW pleads guilty to three felonies in deal to settle U.S. emissions case

(Auto News) The largest automaker in the world is now officially a felon in the United States, but its sentencing will have to wait. Volkswagen Group pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to three felonies under a plea agreement:...