![]() Now, many other manfufacturers are in the firing line, with Mercedes the next in line to garner lots of attention from claimants in the past 6 months. In May 2022, Volkswagen settled a UK group litigation order, paying 91,000 claimants £193m, around £2,100 each. When the vehicles were on the road in real-world conditions, they emitted up to 40 times more nitrogren oxide, a dangerous polluntant that causes thousands of premature deaths across the globel every year. ![]() The EPA found that Volkswagen had programmed many of their diesel vehicles to activate emission control sequeneces when they were being tested. They claimed that the German manufacturer was in violation of the US Clean Air Act. The Dieselgate scandal first hit headlines in 2015 when Volkswagen were accused of tampering with their diesel engine by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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