Suspended Audi CEO Rupert Stadler, 55, was arrested in connection to Volkswagen Auto Group's "Dieselgate" emissions scandal back in mid-June. Despite prosecutors saying he could go free in a matter of days if cooperative, Stadler spent the last several weeks in detention. On Monday, his bid for freedom was denied by the Munich appeals court.
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Former Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler's request to be freed from custody has been rejected, the Munich court of appeal said on Monday.
Three years ago Volkswagen was caught cheating with emission tests, but they were not the only carmaker manipulating the data. Brussels is introducing a more robust regime but the manufacturers are already finding ways of undermining it
The European Commission has concrete information suggesting that automakers are cheating in a new emissions testing procedure. Only this time, they appear to be over-polluting, in order to make it easier for them to meet stricter limits on CO2 emissions in the future.
Ford is recalling almost 550,000 vehicles in North America because the automatic transmission might not be in "park," although the shift indicator says it is. That could allow the vehicle to roll, the automaker said in a news release Wednesday.
According to a media report, automaker Opel is being investigated for manipulating vehicle emissions on about 60,000 cars worldwide. It is the first time the company has been named since Dieselgate broke in 2015.
Supplier Robert Bosch must hand over e-mails in connection with lawsuits brought by investors against Porsche SE in connection with the Volkswagen (VW) diesel scandal, a Stuttgart regional court ruled on Friday.
The man who exposed 'Dieselgate' has told Independent Motors he hopes new tests will help cut emissions in Europe but believes we are still far more lax in enforcing regulations than the US.
Nissan, last year accused by UK consumer magazine Which? of faking emissions data, has admitted its own "dieselgate."
Nissan Motor said Monday it altered the results of exhaust emissions and fuel economy tests of new vehicles sold in Japan, in the latest misconduct to surface at the Japanese automaker.
Audi's CEO Rupert Stadler is "ready to talk" after being arrested in connection with the emissions-cheating scandal. Meanwhile, the company's executive board is deliberating his replacement.
Being in charge of a business during a scandal that misled consumers, spewed pollutants into the atmosphere and helped incinerate billions of your parent company's capital might get you sacked at many places. At Volkswagen AG, it gets you promoted.
When evidence emerged that Audi had played a major role in developing illegal emissions software on Mr. Stadler's watch, he and most other top executives kept their jobs.
A German court ruled on Friday that investors pushing for damages over a sharp fall in Volkswagen shares after the carmaker disclosed emissions cheating in 2015 can also seek redress from majority shareholder Porsche SE.
German prosecutors on Monday widened an emissions cheating probe into Volkswagen's luxury carmaker Audi to include the brand's Chief Executive Rupert Stadler among the suspects accused of fraud and false advertising.
Former Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn has been asked to testify before a German court in connection with a lawsuit seeking damages from the automaker over its emissions cheating scandal, German paper Bild reported.
The ban, which came into effect on Thursday, only affects two roads, but it's a big move nonetheless in a country where the auto industry is both key to the economy and a focal point for the "Dieselgate" emissions scandal. The diesel engine, in fact, is named after Rudolf Diesel, the German engineer who invented it.
Today's automotive industry being as it is, collaboration between Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Volkswagen is a given in more than one areas. The three have even been involved together in the European Research Group on Environment and Health in the Transport Sector, an organization linked with an emissions experiment on 10 macaque monkeys in the U.S.
The chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV admonished a company spokesman in 2015 for saying the company didn't rig its vehicles with illegal software to pass emissions tests, according to documents filed in a related lawsuit.
The emissions scandal catapulted the native Austrian to the pole position at the carmaker. But investigations at Volkswagen and his former employer, BMW, pose a risk to his stellar career.
