Stellantis Fined $300 Million For Emissions Scandal

Although diesel-fueled cars provide considerable fuel savings compared to gasoline-powered cars, the cost of this financial savings is harm to nature as it turns. For this reason, both automakers are abandoning or preparing to abandon diesel-fueled cars, and drivers are increasingly turning to gasoline or electric cars. Even Hybrid car sales rates in Turkey are close to diesel car sales.

Although we are talking about saying goodbye to diesel cars today, diesel cars were among the primary plans of automakers until recently. Countries are increasingly stricter to steer manufacturers away from diesel cars. carbon emission regulations Manufacturers were trying to meet these rules with the least cost. Sometimes even resorting to tricks…

Emissions fraud detected in more than 100,000 cars

German automotive giant Volkswagen has been shaken up by emission scandals in the past years, senior VW executives had to resign, and the company had to renew its policies from top to bottom and turn to electric cars. Of course he paid billion dollar fines Not to mention… There is no need to explain what happened, but for those who are curious our news here they can read. The subject of this news is the roof company of many famous automobile brands such as Peugeot-Fiat-Citroen-Opel-Ferrari-Maserati. stellantisemissions scandal involving

According to documents submitted by the US Department of Justice, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), one of the components of Stellantis, used software that showed misleading data in tests to circumvent diesel emissions rules in the US, and carried out a similar type of diesel emission fraud with Volkswagen. Stellantis’ ‘fraud’ perpetrated in more than 100 thousand RAM and Jeep vehicles 300 million dollars resulted in him agreeing to pay the fine.

In tests, vehicles were shown to produce less emissions than they actually are.

According to the shared information, the FCA miscalibrated the emission control systems to ‘fool’ US emissions testing procedures, thus allowing vehicles to it seems to produce fewer emissions than under normal driving conditions. The vehicles subject to the fraud in question were put on the market between 2014 and 2016, during which FCA had not yet merged with PSA to establish a roof company called Stellantis.