Friday, September 25, 2015

EPA warns other carmakers it will test for defeat devices - Yahoo Finance

 

Financial Times

By Chris Bryant in Frankfurt and Barney Jopson in Washington 3 hours ago

 

The US environmental regulator put all vehicle manufacturers "on notice" on Friday that it would intensify its emissions testing on diesel-powered vehicles to discover whether "defeat devices" were being used more widely.

 

Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters: "We are stepping up our testing activities in response to VW's alleged violation."

The new testing regime will start immediately and Christopher Grundler, director of the EPA's office of transportation and air quality, said that for manufacturers it meant "we'll be keeping their vehicles a little bit longer and driving them more".

The EPA's announcement came as Volkswagen's board gathered to appoint a new chief executive to lead the carmaker, with Matthias M�ller, head of Porsche, widely viewed as the favourite candidate

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