Volkswagen has to deal with another explosive action in the affair manipulated emissions. The US trade authority FTC (Federal Trade Commission) announced that it has initiated a procedure for misleading advertising.
It’s about reparation of billion-dollar losses of US car owners that VW bought the promise supposedly clean diesel technology had.
the authority raises Volkswagen claims to have sold from 2008 until late 2015, hundreds of thousands of diesel under false pretenses in the US. “Our suit seeks compensation for consumers who bought these cars because of fraudulent and unfair practices,” said FTC president Edith Ramirez.
“We have received the complaint and continue our collaborative work with all US- authorities, including the Federal Trade Commission continue, “said a spokesman for VW Group in Wolfsburg on Tuesday. The FTC accused VW to have applied more than seven years cars as “clean diesel” whose emissions were fined.
The Authority estimates that the average selling price of rigged cars at about $ 28,000 and goes over 550 000 affected from vehicles. Thus, a total of about $ 15.4 billion would result. This is rather a calculated threat scenario as a concrete demand for compensation, but the FTC raises the bar for the negotiations to a comparison so high.
Your complaint has the authority submitted to the same federal court in San Francisco, where already hundreds of other US civil actions are bundled. Usually it comes in the mammoth process to allegations of vehicle owners and car dealers for fraud and breach of contract. In addition, a complaint the Ministry of Justice on behalf of the Environment Agency EPA, the penalties of up to $ 46 billion for violating the Clean Air Act requires.
The competent US Judge Charles Breyer had VW last Thursday a deadline extension until April 21 granted in order to reach an agreement with the EPA on a plan for the conversion of diesel cars. Breyer calls “specific and detailed” proposals. If his ultimatum not be adhered to, he could order under threat of punishment, to pull the car out of circulation or VW make this summer a process.
Volkswagen had given in September after allegations of EPO, since 2009 have a special software exhaust test tricked in the US. In fact, the emissions of the pollutant nitrogen oxide was many times above the regulatory limits. The FTC had taken in October investigations in the case. In the US, a total of nearly 600 000. Diesel are affected worldwide about eleven million.
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