Volkswagen revealed that US regulators diesel 2016 models also include software that could help their vehicles to emit fewer emissions testing regulators.
The automaker confirmed to The Associated Press “auxiliary control device emissions” in question operates separately from the controversial device included in the models 2009 to 2015 and whose use for handling emissions tests last month revealed.
The software newly revealed makes pollution control catalyst to heat faster, improving performance of the device that separates the pollutant nitrogen oxide and oxygen and nitrogen becomes harmless gases.
VW spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan, reported that the new problem with vegetables 2016 was revealed last week to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Regulators week.
“The agencies are currently evaluating this and Volkswagen are entering additional information,” Ginivan.
AP reported last for the first time that EPA and the Air Resources Board of California investigating “the nature and purpose” of additional software on the new VW models week. Regulators have not yet determined whether the code is a manipulator device specifically installed to falsify emissions tests, said Janet McCabe, Acting Deputy Administrator of air quality in the EPA.
“We have a long list of questions for VW in this connection, “he said Tuesday in an opening ceremony of a new test center for heavy-duty trucks in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “We get some answers from them, but still do not have all the answers.”
Volkswagen already faces a criminal investigation underway and billions of dollars in fines for violating the Clean Air Act by falsify their previous emissions as well as plenty of state investigations and class actions brought on behalf of clients.
If it is determined that the new software is a second manipulator device, that would call into question recent claims of VW executives that responsibility for the scandal falsify depends on a handful of software developers who wrote the original code installed in diesel engines of the company from 2009 models.
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Matthew Daly contributed from Washington. Krisher reported from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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