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WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) – US lawmakers today requested documents to Volkswagen and the United States Environmental Protection Agency related to illegal software company used to circumvent emission testing for certain models of passenger vehicles with diesel engines.
In a letter to Michael Horn, president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, the bipartisan leadership of the Committee on Energy and Commerce the Chamber asked the company to deliver all documents, including “related to the development, approval, testing and use of software” installed on 500,000 diesel cars in the United States.
In a letter sent by separate the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, leaders of the Committee requested a detailed schedule of events and related offenses activities, including how and when they were discovered.
“It seems that Volkswagen He had a dirty little secret and consumers are not the only ones who feel betrayed, “he said in the joint statement of the Committee Chairman Fred Upton and the chairperson of oversight and investigations committee, Tim Murphy.
“There are many unanswered questions and answers we get the facts and the American people deserve.”
The committee said they want the information and documents on October 13. Applications occur after the announcement last week in the sense that the committee hold a hearing soon about the Volkswagen scandal.
The software in question, according to the company is in 11 million vehicles worldwide, allowing detect when vehicles were being tested for light emission and completely emission controls only during the test.
This led to vehicles meeting the . emission standards in laboratories or test stations, but during normal operation the nitrogen oxides emitted at a level 40 times above the standard
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