Washington - Volkswagen will have to pay US $ 14.7 billion in the United States due to fraud scandal in diesel engines, according to details of the agreement negotiated by the German automaker with owners and the US authorities.
The details of the agreement, which is temporary and will not be officially released at least until the San Francisco court overseeing the case hold a public hearing on June 30, were revealed today several vehicles of American press.
The revelation occurred a few hours before the parties appear before the San Francisco court documents that will seal the agreement between consumers, federal authorities and the state of California and VW.
The newspaper "The New York Times" said on its website that the total amount, $ 10 billion will be reserved for the VW buy vehicles defrauded by the prices prevailing before the scandal burst in the second half of 2015.
In addition, VW would pay $ 2.7 billion to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as compensation for environmental damage caused by fraudulent vehicle.
To these numbers would add $ 2 billion to VW develop projects for new cleaner vehicles.
The owners of almost 500,000 vehicles affected in the US, all equipped with 2-liter diesel engines, can decide whether that VW buy cars or accept the solution that the company's engineers have developed to comply with the environmental laws of the country .
The problem of engines defrauded VW diesel is that emit nitrogen oxide, which is carcinogenic, much higher than allowed by the US authorities levels.
To circumvent the inspection that would have detected illegal emissions, VW installed a software that detects when the car is being subjected to emissions testing.
The software changes the engine output for emitting less nitrogen oxide, but in return to reduce considerably their income.
The technical solution developed by VW has to do with that defrauded engines do not emit under no circumstances nitrogen oxide above the authorized.
But that is likely to cause a loss of vehicle efficiency, which for many homeowners may be an unacceptable compromise.
VW is still the target of a criminal investigation by the United States Department of Justice, a process of the Federal Trade Commission and dozens of state investigations.
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