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The Global Fuel Economy Initiative’s “dynamic partnership” was included in the High Level Political Forum for the Sustainable Development Goals in New York.
The Global Fuel Economy Initiative’s “dynamic partnership” was included in the High Level Political Forum for the Sustainable Development Goals in New York.
On June 28, more than 9 months after the "Dieselgate" story broke, Volkswagen agreed to a $14.7 billion partial settlement designed to do three things: compensate consumers for advertising fraud; promote electric vehicles; and clean up excess air pollution from the nearly half a million deliberately defective diesel cars sold into the US market for 7 years. While the settlement is incomplete—it does not include civil and possible criminal penalties, nor does it address the 85,000 3-liter diesels outfitted with defeat devices that VW sold in the U.S.—we know enough at the moment to step back and assess the results as they currently stand.
