German automaker Volkswagen will no longer build internal-combustion engine vehicles at its Zwickau plant in Mosel, in its transition to the production of electric cars. The plant will henceforth produce only EVs for Volkswagen, Audi, and Seat. Some say that …
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My ill-fated idea to trade in my eight-cylinder 4.0 liter BMW for a high-mileage (43 MPG) car led me to the VW Jetta TDI, which I traded back to them the moment the Department of Justice ordered them to make …
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As reported by my colleague Jon LeSage in his terrific publication Green Auto Digest, the most influential car show in the world, The Paris Auto Show, is featuring an enormous range of electric vehicles, spurred on at least in some …
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Here’s the latest newsletter from my colleague Jon Lesage of the Green Auto Digest. Apparently, the 11 million victims of VW’s emissions fraud (of whom my wife and I are two) are very close to getting some sort of restitution …
If you needed proof that American consumers really don’t care a whit about the ethical standards of the vendors from which they buy their stuff, here’s further assurance.
I had to laugh at a news item this morning. According to this report, delivered by a well-dressed woman with a completely straight face, “(As a result of VW’s criminality) its 2016 cars won’t be able to pass the EPA’s …
My colleague Brian McGowan notes on the Volkswagen scandal: The one thing that all of this does prove again is that no corporation is ever to be trusted to “do the right thing” in spite of the fact that one …
Lessons Emerging from Volkswagen’s Crime of the Century Read More »
Gary Tulie (pictured), my brilliant colleague who contributed so greatly to Bullish on Renewable Energy, suggests ways in which corporate criminal Volkswagen can atone for what it’s done to the people of the world and the environment in which they live. …
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My colleague Jon LeSage writes: Here’s what you’ll find in this week’s edition of Green Auto Market – Extended Edition……….Snapshot of Volkswagen diesel scandal: What’s next for world’s largest automaker….The scandal at Volkswagen started by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
Anyone of Even the Most Feeble Moral Character Is Totally Infuriated at Volkswagen Read More »
The photo here depicts a slice of life from 1905, before fire-fighting equipment had evolved into an early version of the trucks we have today. (To skeptics, of which I was one before I looked this up: both the source …
