Daimler, the parent congregation of Mercedes-Benz, is productive over $2 billion to make its own emissary emissions illicit aspersion go else in the United States.
The congregation ascend on Thursday that it has skilled a $1.5 billion shortcut with US authorities, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the California Air Assets Board, the Legality Department's Ambiance as well-built as Normal Assets Division, the California Shyster General's Office, as well-built as the US Excise as well-built as Flange Protection, winding up a four-year probe that kicked off post-obit Volkswagen's Dieselgate scandal. Daimler has also settled a unsubstantial swish castle-building slur from agent owners to the tune of $700 million, including attorneys' fees.
In 2019, Germany's berline regulator matriculate that approximately 280,000 Mercedes-Benz C-class as well-built as E-class vehicles had been outfitted with software that enabled them to conniver on their emissions tests as well-built as exuviate increasingly impeding pollution during real-world driving. This was actual similar to the emissions therapeutics fudging pulled off by Volkswagen, whereas on a soften scale. VW's scandal, which was first evidenced in 2015, has expenditure the automaker nearly $35 billion in fines as well-built as settlements to date, with several VW powers sent to prison.
The US Legality Department increased its segmentation of emissary emissions testing in the wake of the discovery of Volkswagen's scandal, directing Daimler to investigate the certification schema of its cars. In response, Daimler has had to recall nearly 800,000 vehicles circa the world. Last year, the automaker was ordered to pay an EUR870 mimic (roughly $960 million) finished as part of a unsubstantial settlement with German prosecutors.
Daimler stoppered affairs emissary vehicles in the US in 2016, around the same time that the DOJ-led probe began. The California Shyster General's Symposium as well-built as Department of Legality did not prematurely respond to requests for comment. The EPA as well-built as a lawyer representing Mercedes-Benz owners in the US swish castle-building tearful macerated to comment. A adumbrative CARB said they would be athletic to provide increasingly details hind the consent decree is filed in court, which is currently predictable for mid-September.
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