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Chrysler Settles for Fuel Emissions Cheating

posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @08:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the Copies-Everything-Including-Cheating dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/fiat-chrysler-settles-in-lawsuit-over-diesel-emissions-cheating/

The US Justice Department (DOJ) on Thursday announced a $305 million civil settlement between Fiat Chrysler and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a lawsuit over illegal software found on certain diesel Dodge Ram models and diesel Jeep Grand Cherokee models.

[...] The settlement comes two years after the EPA accused Fiat Chrysler of installing undisclosed and illegal software on 104,000 vehicles, including 3.0L diesel Dodge Ram 1500 trucks and diesel Jeep Grand Cherokees between model years 2014 and 2016. The EPA claimed the software would sense when the vehicle was being tested under laboratory conditions and implement the full emissions control system so that the car could pass the EPA's emissions tests.

I guess the Volkswagen cheating was considered a feature by the Chrysler engineers, and they were just copying what the customers demanded?

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  • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday January 11 2019, @10:59AM (1 child)

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Friday January 11 2019, @10:59AM (#784972)

    A little clarification:
    VW 11million worldwide. 600k in U.S.
    Fiat/Chrysler apparently only sold 104k in the U.S. only, including 1700 imported vehicles.

    And oddly, three quarters of this page is struck through. From an AC's quote down. On this article only.
    Is this local to my browser, or is everyone seeing this?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @11:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @11:47AM (#784982)

    I am seeing the strikethrough