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Volkswagen faces EU fine for missing 2020 emissions targets REUTERS Volkswagen faces a fine of more than 100 million euros ($121 million) for missing EU targets on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its 2020 passenger car fleet, the world’s largest carmaker said on Thursday. Volkswagen admitted in 2015 to cheating emissions tests on diesel engines, a scandal that has cost it more than 30 billion euros in regulatory fines and vehicle refits, mostly in the United States. read more »

Toyota settles U.S. probe into delayed emissions defect reports for $180 million REUTERS Toyota Motor Corp settled a lengthy Justice Department civil probe into its delayed filing of emissions-related defect reports for $180 million, the government said on Thursday. The government said the settlement resolved Toyota’s “systematic, longstanding violations of Clean Air Act emission-related defect reporting requirements, which require manufacturers to report potential defects and recalls affecting vehicle components designed to control emissions.” read more »

550,000 pickups are cheating on diesel emissions. Emissions testing might not be enough to stop them THE DAY Federal investigators estimate hundreds of thousands of Americans have illegally rigged their diesel pickups to collectively emit 16 times the level of pollution they otherwise would have over the last 10 years, according to a report by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The FTC said on Monday that buyers of polluting Volkswagen AG vehicles received more than $9.8 billion in settlements

Fuel Pump Issue-A Must Read For Toyota, Honda Car Owners

The hybrid cars may not enter a failsafe mode in the event the hybrid system exhibits a fault

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday that Volkswagen Group cannot escape potential financial penalties from two counties in Florida and Utah

Germany's highest civil court has ruled that Volkswagen must pay compensation

Technologies used by Volkswagen to rig vehicle emissions tests should be considered illegal

In the suit, which was filed on Friday, owners of the Toyota cars contend that the braking system intermittently fails

GM CP4 class action lawsuit alleges the Bosch high-pressure fuel injection pumps are destroyed by U.S. diesel fuel

EU consumers should be able to sue car makers in their national courts if they have bought cars with emission cheat devices

Safety advocates think that before easing any rules should backed by extensive testing

Dieselgate became one of the biggest corporate scandals in history

safety testing and consumer rating systems that have not kept up with the pace of deployment

"It's time to stop enabling drivers in any partially automated vehicle to pretend that they have driverless cars."

German authorities will "likely" discover software rigging the level of diesel emissions in Mercedes-Benz cars other than those already sanctioned

disappearing Tesla software isn't an isolated occurrence, but there isn't much clarity on when or why it happens.

Like its rival Volkswagen, Daimler faces substantial costs from accusations that it programmed diesel vehicles to cheat

Britain will ban the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars from 2035