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Cummins Diesel Cheats Emissions Tests - Fined $1.6B by US (www.thecooldown.com)

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Cummins Diesel Cheats Emissions Tests - Fined $1.6B by US

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That was just one of the many cases. In total, dieselgate cost VW $38 billion. On top of that, a lot of their executives ended up in prison.

Unfortunately, every other automaker (well, except Tesla for fairly obvious reasons) did the same thing, some worse than VW, and barely got any punishment.