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Audi Faces Sept. 26 Deadline on Diesel Software
Germany’s KBA motor authority has given Audi AG 10 days to remove emission-cheating software from its V-6 and V-8 diesel engines.
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Germany’s KBA motor authority has given Audi AG 10 days to remove emission-cheating software from its V-6 and V-8 diesel engines, Bild am Sonntag reports.
The newspaper says KBA has detailed its demands in three letters to Audi. If the company fails to meet the deadline, the authority says it will impose fines of €25,000 ($27,600) on each noncompliant engine still in operation.
Audi tells Reuters it already has reprogrammed 92% of the affected engines and expects to do the same for the remaining powerplants by the deadline.
In January KBA ordered Audi to recall 127,000 vehicles in Europe to remove illegal emission control software. The demand came after Audi agreed in July 2018 to call back 850,000 of its V-6 and V-8 Euro 6-spec diesels to reprogram engine emission control software.
KBA says the original software manipulates diesels to meet nitrogen oxides emission limits during certification tests but allow much higher NOx output under real-world conditions. Audi has claimed that its software upgrade lowers NOx by 20%
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