VW Loses Appeal Over Legality of Diesel Emission Device
A TDI diesel engine sits under the hood of a Volkswagen automobile in Hannover, Germany.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergVolkswagen AG and Germany’s transport regulator KBA failed to overturn a lower court ruling that quashed a regulatory approval of a software device that deactivates emission cleaning in diesel engines depending on temperature.
The Schleswig Administrative Appeals Court said Thursday that it rejected the appeals against a lower court decision won by environmental group DUH over the 2016 approval of devices VW employed in its Golf Plus TDI cars. KBA must now order VW to take the necessary steps to bring the vehicles in line with the law. The judges didn’t allow any further appeal.