News Digest Item
20 Oct 2016

“VW has retrofitted few diesel cars”

Süddeutsche Zeitung

More than one year after the start of the VW scandal over illegal emissions manipulations, Europe’s largest carmaker has made slow progress in retrofitting affected cars in Germany, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung. According to the government, the use of the illegal software has been deactivated in just ten percent of affected VW diesel cars.

Read the article in German here.

For background, read the new CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers and the factsheet Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility.

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