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US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com)

Posted by msmash on from the smells-fishy dept.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday accused Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV of illegally using hidden software to allow excess diesel emissions to go undetected, the result of a probe that stemmed from regulators' investigation of rival Volkswagen AG. From a report: FCA shares plummeted as the maximum fine is about $4.6 billion. The EPA action affects 104,000 U.S. trucks and SUVs sold since 2014, about one-sixth the vehicles in the Volkswagen case. The EPA and California Air Resources Board told Fiat Chrysler it believes its undeclared auxiliary emissions control software allowed vehicles to generate excess pollution in violation of the law. Fiat Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne angrily rejected the allegations at a hastily-assembled conference call with reporters, saying there was no wrongdoing and the company never attempted to create software to cheat emissions rules by detecting when the vehicle was in test mode.

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  1. Conservatives need to realize cheating occurs by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fiat and VW have no love for you and your failed ideology.

    Buy a plug-in electric car, SUV, or truck (they sell them for $9000 in China today and in First World nations like Canada) and stick it to the man.

    Take back your own money and fill your tank with electrons that cost 1/20th what imported Russian gasoline does.

    Or do you want to keep being serfs to your foreign masters?

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  2. Re:Headline should be by Luthair · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Virtually all cars exceed emissions standards because manufacturers build to pass the test, not build to meet the emission standards.

  3. Everyone's doing it by hawguy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I suspect this will play out like the doping scandals in sports -- everyone is doing it because if you're not, then you're at a competitive disadvantage.

    I'm sure this is why none of the other manufacturers called our VW for this practice before the EPA found out... they didn't want to raise attention to it. I'm sure they all knew about.... if one manufacturer released an engine that met impossible-to-meet standards, you can bet that they all dissected the engine to see how they did it.