Volkswagen loses case in top EU court for Volkswagen emissions scandal
"The scandal has cost Volkswagen more than $30 billion in vehicle refits, fines and provisions."
It seems to appear that there's no rest for Volkswagen in its notorious 'Diesegate' scandal and the carmaker has now lost a case in the European Union's top court which pronounced that it had busted the law by installing 'cheat' devices on its cars undergoing emission tests. It also pronounced that the car maker's argument that the devices were used to protect the engines was on thin ice.
The European Union's top court ruled that Volkswagen breached the law by installing on its cars a so-called defeat device to cheat on emission tests and could not argue it was merely protecting car engines.
Volkswagen has been facing massive heat since the US Environmental Protection Agency first accused it of a software rig on its 'clean diesel' vehicles in the country. This was five years ago, five years of denial, admission, and a whole lot of legal tussle and brand image deterioration.
Volkswagen did admit that millions of its vehicles - 11 million - had been fitted with such devices and that it was not in the US alone. The scandal has cost Volkswagen 30 billion euros ($35 billion) in fines and civil settlements and led to the recall of millions of vehicles.
The EU top court on Thursday pronounced that car maker cannot fit their offerings with devices that smooth control figures of emissions for the purpose of passing a test.
The court also strongly disagreed that the idea behind the installation of the device was to prevent aging or clogging up of the engines under the hood. "In order to be justified, the presence of such a device must allow the engine to be protected against sudden and exceptional damage, and that only those immediate risks of damage which give rise to a specific hazard when the vehicle is driven are such as to justify the use of a defeat device," the court said.
While environment activists are celebrating the decree, some calling it a 'landmark ruling for clean air in Europe', Volkswagen says it won't have an impact on current legal disputes as the court did not comment on probable damages to owners of such vehicles.
source: Associated Press
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