Volkswagen speaks: ‘sjoemelsoftware was a desperate act’

Posted on 10-12-2015 at 12:22 by Ricardo – 36 Comments”

At a press conference in Wolsfburg, Volkswagen, the state of affairs discussed around the biggest crisis in the history of the company.

The persco was kicked off by board member Hans Dieter Pötsch, that of wal stuck with chitchat about how Volkswagen drives on the trust of customers, and how they have the trust of the public and politics would recover. He expressed regret and shed light on the new corporate structure that september 25 was approved, that the company is more decentralized is going to work, with six new directors in the board of directors.

Pötsch popped then in the CO2-scandal, in which he stated that it is less bad than first reported, and the number of models affected is limited. A lot of yadaboringgaapyada. Pötsch says that there are internal and external committees investigate and the culprits are trying to find. So far 9 managers dead due to CO2-gate and goes up to 9 models.

Then said Pötsch that the IT infrastructure of the brand on the shovel. Departments may soon be no more unseen with software cheat. Previously, there was no oversight, which engineers software it is possible to implement with the stikstofuitstoot in the test cycles down. This was, as we know, done by temporarily more AdBlue into the exhaust to spray. The reason: they saw, under the immense pressure, no other possibility to keep the nitrogen down. A desperate act.

Solution for European sjoemeldiesels
When Matthias muller, the new ceo, word came there were more clear answers. He says that for the three AE189-diesel engines, a fix is that the NOx emissions within the standards. Something that is also economically feasible. Why they are the engines not from the beginning to be this way have built? Because the technology was not yet available was and one was not aware of the applied sjoemelsoftware, says Müller. Volkswagen starts next month with the repair of the 2.0 TDI’s.

For the US, where the issue is the most pressing and NOx standards, the most restrictive, there is still no suitable solution.

Volkswagen is transparent and modest
Where Müller with it closed, it is still perhaps the most important. He wants Volkswagen to have a more open company. More transparency, more ‘maladjusted pioneers’, more open discussion. “Mistakes are allowed, yes-sayers, not more.”
This breaks Müller hard with the line of Ferdinand Piëch, who was a “you’re doing g*dverd#mme what I say” policy is adhered to. Also they are more modest preparation during car shows. “That will do us good,” said Mueller, who closed with a comment about the profit outlook. That is not adjusted.

UPDATE: From January diesel with a 2.0 litre TDI recalled, in the second quarter volggen the 1.2 litres of TDI, followed by the 1.6 in the third quarter.