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# Volkswagen Admits To Cheating EPA Emissions Standards

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## Video: Volkswagen Admits To Cheating EPA Emissions Standards

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_Published 2015-09-21. Volkswagen's stocks are taking a dive after the company admitted to having cheated EPA standards for emissions for years._


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## Transcript

Volkswagen is in trouble, with shares dropping over 20 %, after the company admitted to cheating for years on EPA air pollution tests. The Environmental Protection Agency charged the company with outfitting diesel cars with software that only turned on Pollution controls during official tests. When not being tested the engines would pollute anywhere between ten to forty times the legal limit, according to EPA estimates. This software was featured in models such as the Golf, Beetle, Jetta, as well as Audi's A3 line. Sales of all 2015 and 2016 models containing the software has been halted. Further, the company has been ordered to recall half a million cars sold between 2009 and 2015.

Cars will be repaired at no cost to the owner, but the process will likely take at least a year. The CEO said in a statement I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public. Officials have said Volkswagen could be hit with fines as high as $ 37, 500 per car, which would total to more than $ 18 billion.

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