Volkswagen to recall all 11 million vehicles over emissions cheating
On September 29, Germany's Volkswagen (VW), Europe's largest car manufacturing group, said it would recall 11 million vehicles worldwide as a measure to resolve the emissions cheating scandal.
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| Volkswagen car models are introduced at a dealership in San Diego, California (USA) on September 21. (Source: Reuters/VNA) |
In a closed meeting with 1,000 directors and managers of VW branches at the group's headquarters in Wolfsburg (Germany) on the afternoon of September 28, VW's new CEO Matthias Mueller said that the group is urgently completing a plan to submit to the authorities on replacing all emissions cheating software in VW products on the market with standard software.
VW will help customers replace existing emissions-cheating software in their vehicles in the coming days, Mueller said.
It is expected that by October, the corporation will submit a plan to fix the above technical error to the authorities.
VW is facing unprecedented pressure in its 78-year history as Europe's largest carmaker after the scandal involving installing software to cheat emissions tests in its vehicles was announced by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week.
The fraud could result in fines of up to $18 billion. VW admitted that about 11 million of its cars were equipped with the software.
The incident forced VW CEO Martin Winterkom to resign and face the risk of being prosecuted by the German Prosecutor's Office./.
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