‘Dieselgate kiss of death for diesels in the US, Japan and China

Posted on 01-01-2016 16:28 by Dizono – 40 Comments”

According to the CEO of a supplier of ECU’s.

No, this news does not come as a big surprise. In countries like the United States, China and Japan, the proportion of cars sold with a diesel engine between 1 to 3 percent. Incidentally, is that in the US, probably without large pickup trucks, not as cars to be seen.

Especially in the US, Volkswagen made a lot of effort to diesel cars to the man with the now famous Clean Diesel campaign and at first not without success. By dieselgate has the confidence in diesels, however, such a dent sustained, that the damage may be irreparable.

That thought, at least Elmar Degenhart, CEO of Continental, that apart from tyres, also supplier of engine control units. Also in China and Japan will be the small market that there is for diesels, according to him, will probably disappear, as he tells the Stock-Zeitung. Over the long-term effects for diesels in Europe, which currently has a market share of 53 percent, he dares not to make statements. Recent developments with millieuzones in their own country, but also, for example, in dieselland France do, however, suspect that the authorities in each case at their best going to do dieselrijden to discourage.

Moreover, Continental also supplier of Volkswagen, but they are, according to Degenhart absolutely not been involved in the sjoemeldieselschandaal. “We have the motormanagmentsystemen delivered according to the specifications of Volkswagen. The installation and adjustment of the software is by Volkswagen itself done,” said the chief that his hands in innocence wash. Competitor Bosch is at this time, however, under a magnifying glass about her role in dieselgate.