Dirty lies: how the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions Dieselgate, as it became known, exploded into one of the biggest corporate scandals in history.
A group of U.S. states is investigating Hyundai Motor Co and Kia Motors Corp for potential unfair and deceptive acts related to reports of hundreds of vehicle fires.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said the car maker's former chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, knew about a "massive" emissions fraud in November 2007.
The EPA and Department of Justice this month announced a settlement with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that amounts to some $800 million in civil fines, recall repairs and environmental remediation, and, pending court approval, a settlement with vehicle owners.
Consumers suing Hyundai Motor Co and Kia Motors Co over an engine defect that allegedly caused some of their vehicles to spontaneously catch fire on Thursday filed an amended complaint that included detailed accounts and pictures of the fires that have garnered widespread attention in the media and were scheduled for a hearing before the U.S. Senate.
Hagens Berman, consumer-rights law firm representing owners of certain Hyundai and Kia vehicles prone to spontaneous engine fires, has filed an amended lawsuit against the automakers with added plaintiffs and harrowing footage of the potentially deadly fires attorneys say are being willfully ignored by Hyundai and Kia.
U.S. officials had accused the company of installing software that enables certain diesel trucks to emit far more pollutants than emissions laws allow.
Volvo AB, the world's second-largest truckmaker, will set aside $780 million (7 billion kronor) to address a faulty emissions-control component that's worn out more quickly than expected.
Volkswagen AG supplier IAV GmbH has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $35 million fine for its role in the German auto giant's emissions-cheating scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers, the obvious winners from the proposal, balked.
Volkswagen has denied allegations that Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch knew about the carmaker's emissions test cheating almost three months before U.S. authorities made it public in September 2015.
Several European countries have either ordered vehicle recalls by carmakers over diesel emissions cheating or plan to do so, German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported without citing sources.
While Volkswagen's diesel emission fiasco has died down in the United States, costing the automaker billions before going achieving dormancy, the legal fires burn brightly in Europe.