Jan 13, 2017
Fiat emissions probe: UK asks for details from US regulator
The firm has been accused of not telling authorities about software that could allow excess diesel emissions in thousands of its vehicles. The UK is facing legal action by the European Union over a separate emissions scandal involving Volkswagen. John German from the International Council on Clean Transportation was part of the team that discovered VW software was evading emissions tests. "VW had software embedded that looked for the actual test cycle used for regulatory purposes, and when they recognised it they turned the emissions controls on, and all other times they shut the emissions controls off. So in the real world, the emissions controls were basically off all of the time." "FCA has not done this. What they're doing is they're looking at things like vehicle speed, vehicle acceleration, and so they're shutting the emission controls off some of the time in the real world, but not all of the time."
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