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Originally Posted by RedDevil
No, more like the engineers meet the board of directors because they cannot match the new pollution standards with their engines, and get told that the other automakers do succeed.
So they have to admit failure or cheat left and right to match the threshold.
Now they learn that the others cheated as well...
Clean diesel, and clean direct injection of any kind without high micro particulate emission, simply cannot be done.
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No, the engineers
can meet the emissions standards. They just can't do it at the right price point, weight and form factor to satisfy their Board. Assignment 1: Make this diesel pass emissions, report what it's going to take to do it. Assignment 2: Ignore the results of Assignment 1 and just fit the diesel in this car, spending no more than $X, and make it look like it passes emissions.
RustyLugNut- Yes, the main news is that the EPA charged someone. But you're reading it backwards: The takeaway is that since the Volkswagen problem, the EPA actually started looking for other automakers doing the same thing. The fact that they found one isn't news at all, and the fact that it's going to be argued is even less newsworthy.