describe exactly what happened. it s hard describe exactly what happened. it s hard to overstate the importance of the diesel gate scandal, it was one of the biggest scandal motor industry has ever seen and the reason why these days we are constantly talking about electric cars and the phasing out of petrol and diesel cars, that owes a great deal to the volkswagen scandal. what happened was that the volkswagen group which includes audi and seattle and skoda, was trying to market cars in the us principally audis and it was trying to market diesel cars. it was trying to market those cars is a clean option but when it started to sell models developed for the european market in the us it encountered a problem. us emissions legislation for diesel cars was more stringent than it was in europe and engineers for audi found the car is developed for those markets, if used in the us and made to meet us emissions criteria, were not able to perform as well as they would without those extra emission
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and the diesel gate scandal. secret documents expose criminal acts get much deeper into the company than previously known. how could corporate culture go so terribly wrong insights from an insider that how do you follow. in 75 minutes on the. board. or. not nothing to get the job well i guess sometimes i am but i stand up and whip it up and pretend to have been think sneak into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes aquatics put in here think it s new for the country that i now don t blame. b.n. needed change will take from this drama down to me it s all that they know
and producing lithium batteries the factory itself will be close to the city s long planned new airport referring to the now 11 year construction period for that musk tesla would certainly be stepping up the pace. for more we re joined by harry hoster he s a professor at the university of like castor and an expert on battery technology why did just not really choose germany it s worth noting that the right the engineering reputation has taken kind of a hit with the botched building of the airport with the diesel gate scandal so what s going on there so i think there s 3 important points to be made here one is it s so technically very clever to to have a foothold in the one of the largest automotive markets in europe which at the same time is host also many of the strongest automotive mass producers within europe and that will certainly help to to increase their share in the european market as well as similar moves help the german companies extending their presence in the united
style of damages being awarded indeed the now those a 30000000000 euros that has already spent on diesel get related damages that has ended up going mostly towards affected u.s. consumers and there s there doesn t seem to be a big indication that that will be replicated here in germany and there are several issues at play here now for siting judge said that you can t really pin down fox vying for breach of contract because the contract of sale happened between dealerships and the individual buyers of these cars were secondhand so where would you go about now in order to claim damages buyers would have to prove what they lost and the courts then have to decide how much reduced resale value matters how much it matters that there are diesel driving bonds you know there s a lot of extra math in all of that that s for sure but isn t there an irony here i mean it evokes what is in the diesel gate scandal right now is going to have to pay up at the same time it s leading the world you know wh