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What exactly is this emissions scandal? Journey so far from VW to Fiat Chrysler

The issue of emissions scandal started with the German automaker Volkswagen.

On September 18, 2015 US Environmental Protection Agency issued notice to the automaker for equipping its vehicles with a particular engine that could skew emissions data.

On September 22, the company admitted to having around 11 million diesel vehicles having this cheat device.

This scandal led to the resignation of the company’s then CEO Martin Winterkorn and host of other resignations followed at the company’s brands – Audi, Skoda, and Porsche.
To fix over 11 million diesel vehicles and to compensate their owners, Volkswagen allotted over $18.2 billion as emission costs.

Apart from this, the company is also facing fines of millions of dollars from various courts.
In May 2016, Mitsubishi Motors admitted that unnamed employees rigged tests to make some of its cars, including mini-cars made for Nissan, seem more fuel efficient than they were in reality.

The announcement made the company’s shares tumble to 15 percent, its worst in over a decade.
Even reports suggested that Mitsubishi Motors used fuel economy testing methods which were not compliant with Japanese regulations since the 1990s.

Nissan Motor came to the rescue of the scandal hit company by confirming buying of 34 percent stake.
As a result of the scandal, the president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp Tetsuro Aikawa step down from his position.
General Motors’ Opel unit did not come unscathed out of the emission scandal storm.

Reports suggested that Opel's diesel models had uncovered "hitherto unknown devices" that deactivate filtration systems in the engines of two of the best-selling models, Astra and Zafira.

However, the company denied using the same emissions cheating software that is at the centre of the Volkswagen Scandal.
In May 2016, South Korea said to fine Nissan for manipulating emissiosn data of hundreds of Qashqai model SUVs, and ordered for recalling the product.

It said if the company would be fined around $2,80,000 for the same.
In May 2016, Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corporation admitted of over 2.1 million vehicles tested wrongly in emission and duel efficiency process.

However, it negated the idea of using cheat device.

The company said the place where the vehicles were tested was affected by weather conditions making the tests difficult.
As a result of this, shares of Maruti Suzuki fell 3.57 percent on the BSE. However, both the companies informed only vehicles sold in Japan were affected.
May 2016 is going to be the month of scandals.

German regulators suspected Fiat Chrysler of using illegal software to cheat on emission tests.

They even accused the automaker for showing "uncooperative attitude" towards the investigation.

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