Volvo Exec: VW Diesel Emissions Cheating Was an “Open Secret” for Years
Were you surprised by Volkswagen’s admission nearly a year ago that it used a software defeat device to fake its way through global diesel emissions standards"Â Competing automakers weren’t?according to a Volvo executive, Volkswagen’s cheating was an “open secret” in the auto industry for the past seven years. It’s just that none of the competition could figure out exactly what VW was doing.
At a Volvo launch event in Spain, Kent Falck, a future product specialist with nearly 30 years of experience at Volvo, remarked that automakers had suspected something was up with VW’s TDI emissions results for years, News.com.au reports. As Falck puts it, competing automakers were perplexed when they couldn’t get their diesel offerings to run as cleanly as Volkswagen claimed?despite using the same equipment from the same auto industry suppliers. “We have the same suppliers, we have Bosch, we have Denso, we are working with the same partners, so we know this technology doesn’t exist,” Falck told a small group of Australian journalists. “I have known that for seven years.”
“We sat in a room and reviewed all the facts, figures, whatever we have, with the specialists,” said Mr Falck. “[W]e can’t manage it, how are the others doing it" We don’t know.”
Falck says that at one point, he and his colleagues thought perhaps Volkswagen had invented or licensed some propri...
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