Software investigate rigged in Mexico – El Siglo de Torreon

From 2009 to date, Volkswagen de Mexico sold 39 thousand 800 cars with diesel engines using software distorting the results of their emissions, said the Minister of Economy, Ildefonso Guajardo.

It revealed that between January and August 2015 another 47 thousand units to the United States with the same software were exported.

Workers of the plant in Puebla said the unit where the Golf is produced, one of the cars with souped software, is stopped.

The company has shared with the government figures on the first car diesel engine with modified software to avoid environmental controls. Guajardo has asked the Mexican subsidiary of the firm that detail the impact of the crisis on production plants in the territory. “It is necessary that the company goes on to explain why he did this and essentially what the challenge they are facing in their production plans,” said the minister.

Volkswagen has two plants in Mexico: A car assembly plant in Puebla and an engine factory in Guanajuato. Three of the five models reported by the United States were manufactured on the premises of the German company in the State of Puebla (Midwest). So far, the company has been silent in Mexico and has not clarified the number of affected cars that left the Puebla plant to the United States and Canada, the main export destinations.

Meanwhile, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), through the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa), asked the automaker Volkswagen the information necessary to verify that the 39 890 thousand diesel cars sold in our country, from 2009 to 2015, met with current regulations.

The head of the federal agency, Rafael Pacchiano Alaman, said the goal is “to ensure that Mexican environmental legislation is being complied fully”, after the automaker acknowledged the misuse of software diesel vehicles sold in the US altering emissions.

He explained that diesel units circulating in Mexico do not have the same technological arrangement was the subject of the infringement found by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, for its acronym in English), both on emission control equipment, and computer systems and software that governs them.

However, the same tests done in the United States will seek to ensure compliance with Mexican regulations, and if any irregularity be detected, the appropriate sanction and remediation of damage will be applied according to law said the secretary Pacchiano Alaman.

Create special unit for North America

The Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG approved a new management structure for the Volkswagen Group brands and to the North America region, “The new structure strengthens brands and regions, provides the Executive Board of the Volkswagen Group the necessary room for maneuver within the company, and emphasis is focused on development issues with a long-term, “said Acting Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Berthold Huber. EU markets, Mexico and Canada will be integrated into a region from 1 November. The activities of the Volkswagen Group in this region by Dr. Winfried Vahland who, in his new role, will be a member of the Executive Board of the Volkswagen brand will be targeted. With this new responsibility, Dr. Vahland left as CEO of the Skoda brand, and his replacement was appointed Bernhard Maier, until now a member of the Executive Board of Porsche AG, responsible for Sales and Marketing. Michael Horn remains president of Volkswagen Group of America.

Porch, new leader of VW

The board of Volkswagen CEO yesterday named a longtime executive in the company and head of the unit Porsche, Matthias Mueller, who will lead the actions to overcome the recent scandal by altering emissions that affect the leader in car sales in the world. The firm also announced it had suspended some employees and reorganize its activities in North America after he admitted having used an electronic device in the engine to alter the results of the brand vehicles for emission testing to do them in the United States . Volkswagen adopted these measures after the resignation of former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, occurred this week because of the scandal.

VWenfrenta severe fines and possible class action lawsuits that could cost billions of dollars. You also need to fix the computer programs that are said about 11 million vehicles worldwide.