Answer to Question #220204 in Management for Bruno

Question

Fallout of Volkswagen from scandal

Answer 1

Yeh United States environmental protection authority filed a petition against German automaker, Volkswagen for non-compliance with clean air act. The company installed a software in its cars that enabled emission controller only during laboratory tests, but we're deactivated during real world driving. They installed the software in 11 million cars, hence was charged a fine of 2.8 billion us dollars for non compliance to the act in question .