Daimler – suit in the US against Daimler for nitrogen oxide emissions – Süddeutsche.de

The C-Class diesel models emission levels should be increased. The time of the complaint of a car owner is probably not entirely coincidental.

Daimler has for its diesel cars anger in the US , As the law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP announced on Thursday evening, filed suit against the company before a district court in Illinois. So for diesel models of the C-Class, the nitrogen oxide emissions would exceed the legal maximum to a 65-fold when the outside temperatures below ten degrees Celsius subject.

are affected vehicles with BlueTec diesel engines. “It seems that Mercedes would have been caught with a similar scheme as VW,” it says in the law firm. In the case of VW, the US Environmental Protection Agency Epa had made last September the scandal public and the group accused of having manipulated for years in flue gas with the help of a special software. Following the publication of allegations by the Environmental Protection Agency Volkswagen admitted manipulating an at eleven million vehicles; 480000 of them in the US.

The time when the action does not seem random

In the Illinois class action suit against Daimler for the alleged fraud as exhaust gas measurement has now been submitted by a car owner. A Daimler spokesman told the evening, you think the lawsuit “unfounded”, it would “look at the documents but very accurate and defend building on this.” At present it is not clear on what figures and measurements was based the action. However, it is said from the environment of the group, the US Environmental Protection Agency Epa was apparently not involved in the action

It seems that the time of the complaint is not accidental -. Finally, it had serious allegations the German Environmental Aid against Daimler given. These were based on measurements in which the Dutch testing institute TNO had noted increased exhaust emissions from diesel vehicles Stuttgart at low temperatures. However, to date has not been established that Daimler is working with a similar software as it used came at VW. Daimler had previously denied this. “It will take place adjustments to the operating conditions, affect the efficiency, the” quoted the environmental association a few days ago Daimler.

Behind the now strained in the US method is the US attorney Steve Berman, the already class action lawsuits against General Motors and Toyota had happened. His firm had already in September, shortly after the VW scandal became public, have begun to take action against VW.

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