FILE PHOTO: Entrance of an A6 TDI diesel mannequin of German automobile producer Audi is pictured at a automobile wash in Hanau, Germany, October 16, 2018. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Picture
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s motorized vehicle authority (KBA) has informed Volkswagen’s premium model Audi that it faces penalties for its failure to take away unlawful software program from diesel vehicles that may manipulate emissions ranges, the Bild am Sonntag (BamS) newspaper reported.
BamS added that the KBA had informed Audi in three letters that it had till Sept. 26 to take away the software program from hundreds of diesel autos with V6 and V8 TDI engines or else face a high-quality of 25,000 euro for every automobile nonetheless carrying an unlawful machine.
The transport ministry stated final yr that the KBA watchdog had detected illicit emission-control software program in some 127,000 Audi fashions with Euro-6 diesel engines, together with 77,600 vehicles in Germany.
A spokesman for the KBA didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the report.
A spokesman for Audi stated the carmaker was getting nearer to upgrading the remaining 8{5048a9ac22a95e6c0a00d427d71a0d7ff263f9d98391fe7073acb5a0aa0a3f48} of the vehicles in query and that it could full the mission by the KBA-set deadline.
“Certainly not will we affirm the BamS report,” the spokesman wrote in an electronic mail.
The transport ministry stated final yr that the KBA watchdog had detected illicit emission-control software program in some 127,000 Audi fashions with Euro-6 diesel engines, together with 77,600 vehicles in Germany.
Audi had stated that these fashions had been included in a voluntary recall of 850,000 diesel autos with V6 and V8 TDI engines.
Reporting by Joseph Nasr; Modifying by Raissa Kasolowsky