Authorities in Germany have raided BMW’s Munich headquarters and its engine plant in Austria as part of an investigation into the alleged use of emissions cheating software. According to officials, 11,400 BMW 750d and BMW M550d vehicles are involved in the issue.
“There is an early suspicion that BMW has used a test bench-related defeat device,” prosecutors said in a report by the BBC. This comes following BMW’s revision of CO2 figures for its entire range under the new Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), which were considerably higher than following the previous New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) test.
In an official statement, BMW said it is taking the situation very seriously and will work closely with the relevant authorities. “The BMW Group continues to assume that the situation was caused by an incorrect allocation of the software and does not represent a deliberate attempt to manipulate exhaust emissions,” it said.
The carmaker has since recalled 11,700 vehicles for software changes, but Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) said that it didn’t consider the software used in affected models to be a defeat device.
“Many of the affected vehicles were initially sold with the correct software and ran correctly for over two years. The incorrect software was employed a significant time after these models originally started production,” BMW stated.
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BMW 750d and BMW M550d wun get EEV insentif here.
Diesel is history soon, polluted source
We wanna clean beloved Malaysia. Bersih.
https://paultan.org/2017/11/14/youths-want-better-public-transport-zero-emissions/
On the way, if stick with current gov.
https://paultan.org/2018/02/20/mrt-sg-buloh-serdang-putrajaya-line-development-on-track-expected-to-be-launched-by-july-2022/
https://paultan.org/2018/02/01/1-utama-link-to-bandar-utama-mrt-station-now-open/
https://paultan.org/2017/09/07/govt-mulls-speeding-up-of-mrt-line-3-project-report/
Can you imagine….even BMW cheat despite having so many watchdogs and enforcement bodies governing them.
In Malaysia, we got no watchdog, no emission control bodies and no real enforcement. Sure here, got lots of skeletons la.
Meaning u cant fault MY lah, becoz others with so many controls oso still do it. Ini bukan salahan MY. Tenkiu bos
Don’t know what skeletons Proton has. Maybe even fake body…oh wai
This is BMW. Why on earth bring in P1? Bodo much?
BMW’s engine is one of the best in the world. This case should be a mistake
haha..bunch of cheaters, poorly made cars
Whether truly cheat or not, the engine is still very well engineered and advanced. But I don’t believe BMW need to cheat.
A cheat is a cheat…the only different is these are so call untouchable….VV…BMW…ang moh…high class cheat…like Bernie Madoff ..I am not surprise there are more to come…like Posh, Merc, Volvo etc…come think of it how can these ang moh diesel engine so clean out of the blue…not logical at all…Jap engineer must be scratching their balls to come out something half as good…hence you see Jap best engine are still petrol…Diesel is only for trucks or pickups :p
Jap don’t innovate. They just good in copying others and tries to fine tune to suit the Asian market
U should check out the Japanese Mazda Skyactive-D that pass the latest Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP)
ICE is at its limit already. No point cheat here n there. Hybrid n ev is the world future.
You do know that a hybrid still use ICE as part of the powertrain, right? Infrastructures for EV are not well-developed even in Europe and USA, plus electricity generation still come mostly from burning equally polluting coal. It will be quite some time before ICE can be replaced.
vw group destroy environment, cheating consumer, but people still buying their car.. world no 1 haha
Nevertheless, VW cars are one the best in term or performance and technology. It is value for money and safer compared to tin kosong jap cars.
In other part of the world, the gov really love and care about vendor parts even though they sell sub par standard with 30% more expensive
never like diesel …. never quite belief all the so called green diesel crap. diesel shouldn’t be on passenger cars period
Diesels are 30% more efficient than petrol engines, hence net production of that much less CO2; and 7% of diesels are green environment friendly palm oil.
It’s just a blunder by the staff. BMW need not do this kind of trick to sell cars