Fiat Chrysler Volkswagen-like pollution fraud

This video from the USA says about itself:

EPA To Accuse Fiat Chrysler Of Excess Emissions Says Report

12 January 2017

CNBC‘s Dominic Chu reports that according to Reuters, the EPA is set to accuse Fiat Chrysler of developing software to allow excess diesel emissions.

Translated from Dutch NOS TV:

“Also Fiat Chrysler fraud with diesels in the USA”

Today, 17:32

Carmaker Fiat Chrysler, according to the US environmental watchdog EPA, like Volkswagen has used fraudulent software. According to the EPA, around 104,000 cars of the group, including the Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Ram pickup, emit too many harmful substances.

All models have a 3-liter diesel engine. After this disclosure the Fiat Chrysler shares decreased at one time by 16 percent.

“The concealment of the presence of software that adjusts the emission is a serious violation of the law, which may result in the pollution of the air we breathe,” said a spokesperson for the EPA. …

Volkswagen CEO

The EPA announcement comes a day after Volkswagen in a US criminal case pleaded guilty because of the fraudulent software scandal. Volkswagen must pay about US $ 4.3 billion due to fraud with diesel emission.

Earlier this week, a Volkswagen US big cheese was arrested because of the scandal.

See also here.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is facing an emissions scandal of its own.

A federal indictment filed in US District Court in Detroit Wednesday charges that a former vice president of Fiat Chrysler funneled more than a million dollars in bribes to United Auto Workers Vice President General Holiefield between 2009 and 2014: here.

“US autoworkers have to accept a culture of poverty”. Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, global cost-cutter, dies: here.

One week after a worker was horribly injured at Fiat Chrysler’s Kokomo, Indiana, casting plant, new information regarding safety violations at the factory is emerging: here.

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