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Activist-Comedian Interrupts VW Exec's Geneva Presentation to Install "Cheat Box"

posted by takyon on Thursday March 03 2016, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the defeat-device dept.

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Common Dreams reports:

In a slick protest and righteous reminder that Volkswagen has yet to leave behind its Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, British activist and comedian Simon Brodkin sabotaged a VW presentation at the Geneva Motor Show Tuesday. As marketing chief Juergen Stackmann sang the praises of their new electrically powered Up! models, Brodkin ambled [1] onto the stage in VW-branded overalls, wielding a wrench and prop [labeled] "cheat box", and began climbing under the car to "fix it". "It's okay, I have the new cheat box", he calmly explained to the bewildered Stackmann. "No one's going to find out about this one."

[...] As Stackmann tried to haul him out from under the car--"It doesn't need a repair, it's a perfect car"--Brodkin referenced VW's [lying, disgraced] CEO with, "Mr. Müller says it's okay as long as no one finds out."

[1] Content is behind scripts. archive.is clears up that nuisance.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2016, @07:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2016, @07:39AM (#313491)

    The problem with diesel engines isn't CO2, it's nitrous oxides

    That and particles, which are really dangerous for your health. Apparently you can get either one down but getting both down is a challenge...

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Friday March 04 2016, @10:58AM

    by anubi (2828) on Friday March 04 2016, @10:58AM (#313550) Journal

    Apparently you can get either one down but getting both down is a challenge...

    Yeh... run rich, you emit lots of unburned fuel... hydrocarbons... CO. - but hardly no NOx, You don't have enough oxygen around to make any.

    Run lean, you emit lots of NOx - but hardly any unburned hydrocarbons, you have so much oxygen around that any hydrocarbon around gets hitched.

    But run in the "sweet spot", you emit BOTH!

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