Automotive News: Diesel emissions scandal causes 38,000 early deaths a year, Porsche and Audi Recalls: Growing Concern Over Gas Leaks
Diesel emissions scandal causes 38,000 early deaths a year, study finds
Global inventory of nitrogen oxide emissions shows highly polluting diesel cars are ‘urgent public health issue’
The global human health impact of the diesel emissions scandal has been revealed by new research showing a minimum of 38,000 people a year die early due to the failure of diesel vehicles to meet official limits in real driving conditions.
Researchers have created the first global inventory of the emissions pumped out by cars and trucks on the road, over and above the legal limits which are monitored by lab-based tests. Virtually all diesel cars produce far more toxic nitrogen oxides (NOx) than regulations intend and these excess emissions amounted to 4.6m tonnes in 2015, the team found.
This led to at least 38,000 premature deaths due to heart and lung disease and strokes. Most of the deaths are in Europe, where highly polluting cars are the main culprit, and in China and India, where dirty trucks cause most of the damage. read more »
Porsche and Audi Recalls: Growing Concern Over Gas Leaks
A concern over gas leaks has prompted the recall of 241,000 Audi and 51,000 Porsche models in the United States, according to reports posted Friday on the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The Audi action is an expansion of a recall last October of 143,000 models for the same problem.
The automaker said it concluded the new recall was necessary as the result of “an ongoing analysis.” read more »
Prosecutor's search of VW's law firm was legal, court rules
Searching the offices of Volkswagen Group's law firm was not illegal, a German regional court said on Monday.
VW said it would lodge an appeal with Germany's Federal Constitutional Court.
In March, Munich prosecutors searched the offices of Jones Day, a U.S. law firm hired by VW to investigate its diesel scandal, stepping up efforts to identify those involved in the automaker's emissions-test cheating.
VW has condemned the search and filed a legal complaint. It said on Monday it would now take the matter to Germany's highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court. read more »
