The Dieselgate scandal broke out in 2015, with the Volkswagen Group, but since then several manufacturers have been caught installing illegal software in their vehicles, designed to artificially lower consumption and emission values during tests on a test bench, thus manipulating the results. . The most recent suspicions of this type of practice fall on the South Koreans Hyundai / Kia.
The information was originally published by the German newspaper Handelsblatt, which reported the visit of 140 researchers to eight different facilities of the two brands, in Germany and Luxembourg. If the suspicions are confirmed, the German newspaper indicates that there could be up to 210,000 vehicles equipped with illegal software.
According to prosecutors, the suspect vehicles were marketed in 2020. Bloomberg also broke the news, and both Hyundai and Kia have since confirmed investigators’ visits to their facilities, saying they were cooperating with the investigation.
Interestingly, the researchers’ attention does not fall solely on the two South Korean construction companies, since Bloomberg advances that the The investigation also focuses on the companies that provided the illegal mechanisms and systems.namely Bosch and Delphi Technologies, meanwhile acquired (in 2020) by BorgWarner Inc. It now remains to wait for the conclusions of the investigations.
Source: Observadora
