US Asks VW For Electric Cars (news.com.au)

US authorities have asked the German carmaker Volkswagen to produce electric vehicles in the United States as a way of making up for its rigging of emission tests. German newspaper Welt am Sonntag claims the US Environmental Protection Agency is currently in talks with Volkswagen with the aim of agreeing on a fix for nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles that emit up to 40 times legal pollution limits. The paper, which gave no source for its report on Sunday, said the EPA was asking VW to produce electric vehicles at its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and to help build a network of charging stations for electric vehicles in the United States.

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Only electric in test mode

[dfn5]

As it turns out, the new VW electric cars will only be electric in test mode.

Re: This is good because of network nature

[Christian Smith]

I'm good with VW paying the fine, just as I had to do when I broke the speeding & stop light laws.

... Of course VW could turn this to their advantage and into a win - making me think of how the record companies instance on DRM helped make iTunes a dominant player in the downloadable music market (maybe this is not the right analogy, but this is the thought that pops into my mind).

You must be new here. We explain computer issues with car analogies, not the other way round.

Re:This is good because of network nature

[davester666]

This is TOTALLY WRONG. The gov't must get out of the way of the free market, as it is ALWAYS self-correcting. VW would eventually come around and produce clean-burning diesel vehicles on their own, just through normal market forces, or they would go out of business. It's a fundamental law of nature. Like gravity.

Everybody knows this.

Once Trump get's elected, this will get fixed up real good.