Post by VWCA_Adman on Jan 30, 2018 20:49:37 GMT -6
VW Suspends Chief Lobbyist: Another Shower of Diesel Outrage
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Jan. 30: VW suspended its chief lobbyist, Thomas Steg, amid concerns that the carmaker conducted diesel-exhaust experiments on humans and monkeys. VW’s current CEO, Matthias Muller, condemned these experiments.
Prior to 2015, when the mega-diesel scandal broke, VW, BMW and Daimler formed a European study group to disprove links between diesel emissions and respiratory illnesses.
During 2013/2014, experts at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque NM used monkeys and an emission’s cheating TDI Beetle to investigate whether diesel emissions posed risks.
In an unrelated study, experimenters exposed 25 people to nitrogen oxide. One idea behind the studies: gathering evidence that the Euro 6 diesel emissions standards were safe. Besides the questionable ethics, it sounds as if German carmakers sought biased data in order to protect their investments in “clean-diesel” programs.
Jan. 30: VW suspended its chief lobbyist, Thomas Steg, amid concerns that the carmaker conducted diesel-exhaust experiments on humans and monkeys. VW’s current CEO, Matthias Muller, condemned these experiments.
Prior to 2015, when the mega-diesel scandal broke, VW, BMW and Daimler formed a European study group to disprove links between diesel emissions and respiratory illnesses.
During 2013/2014, experts at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque NM used monkeys and an emission’s cheating TDI Beetle to investigate whether diesel emissions posed risks.
In an unrelated study, experimenters exposed 25 people to nitrogen oxide. One idea behind the studies: gathering evidence that the Euro 6 diesel emissions standards were safe. Besides the questionable ethics, it sounds as if German carmakers sought biased data in order to protect their investments in “clean-diesel” programs.