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US sues Volkswagen Report Assignment

   

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ContentsUS sues Volkswagen for deceptive 'clean diesel' campaign............................................................1Describe on the base of their Clean Diesel campaign (2008-2015)............................................1Describe how Volkswagen uses this campaign in social media and how this makes unfair practices in competition...............................................................................................................2References........................................................................................................................................4

US sues Volkswagen for deceptive 'clean diesel' campaignDescribe on the base of their Clean Diesel campaign (2008-2015).The underlying thought of Volkswagen (VW) has been mainly about resolving the issue related to reducing the pollution that comes due to the vehicles. In 2005, they came with Mercedes Blue Tec system which could not be effective enough and, so they then came up with the electronically controlled injection system that has a higher-pressure pump. The company started focusing on Clean Diesel Campaign where the company has been installing software for the cars to control the pollution, which were used at the time of testing. The system proposed by the company allow the higher precision fuel delivery through the electronic fuel injector. The software used by the company showed emission level of diesel very less at the time of testing, and the other times the vehicles could easily spew any type of hazardous smog forming compounds (Stanwick et al., 2017). The clean diesel cars were being sold and they contain the software mainly to food the regulators. The Clean Diesel Campaign was mainly for offering a great mileage and low pollution so that there is a possibility to effectively handle the combustion of the diesel and gasoline. With time it was seen that the people in US were able to get a cleaner car with less emission through the clean diesel cars. But it was seen that Volkswagen had been inserting some of the intricate codes into the vehicle software to track the movements of the car especially of the steering and the pedal (Davenport et al., 2016). The movements were tested properly where it was evident that the car automatically turned its pollution controls on at the time of checking. There has been major discrepancy in the tests and the performance performance for the VW diesel cars in US. It was found that the car was emitting 5-20 times

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