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the installation of appropriate
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every petrol station in every
market in which it has sold
defective vehicles? What might
we learn from such courses
of action? It is said that Hope
remained behind when Pandora
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solution than merely punishing
VW; and let us not give future
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1 Notices of Violations: Volkswagen. US EPA.
http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/cert/violations.htm
2 VW Statement. Volkswagen AG has issued the following information
http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/info_center/en/news/2015/09/Volkswagen_AG_has_issued_the_following_information.html
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4 Yang L, Franco V, Campestrini A, German J, Mock P. ICCT NOX control technologies for Euro 6 Diesel passenger cars.
http://www.theicct.org/nox-control-technologies-euro-6-diesel-passenger-cars
5 Autocar Magazine. 24 September 2015
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/vw-emissions-scandal-other-manufacturers-deny-cheating.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/volkswagen-emissions-eu-idUKL8N1311SO20151106
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8 EU Asks Volkswagen for Emissions Details Within 10 Days. Wall Street Journal 9 November 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-asks-volkswagen-for-emissions-details-within-10-days-1447096891
9 European Environment Agency: Air quality in Europe - 2014 report
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-quality-in-europe-2014
10 EPA Health Nitrogen Dioxide
http://www3.epa.gov/airquality/nitrogenoxides/health.html
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15 Two-thirds of Germans still trust Volkswagen after emissions scandal The Guardian. 20 October 2015.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/20/two-thirds-of-germans-still-trust-volkswagen-after-emissions-scandal
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19 Yang L, Franco V, Campestrini A, German J, Mock P. ICCT NOX control technologies for Euro 6 Diesel passenger cars. op. cit.
20 Dyson’s action for annulment of the regulation on energy labelling of vacuum cleaners is unsuccessful. 11 November 2015. General Court of the European Union
Judgment in Case T-544/13. PRESS RELEASE No 133/15.
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-11/cp150133en.pdf
21 VW scandal threatens ‘Made in Germany’ image. Reuters. 22 September 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/22/usa-volkswagen-germany-image-idUSL5N11S38X20150922
22 The Volkswagen scandal: yet more proof that business-as-usual for the conventional car industry cannot continue.
http://bellona.org/news/future-energy-system/electric-vehicles/2015-09-the-volkswagen-scandal-yet-another-proof-that-business-as-usual-for-the-conventional-
car-industry-cannot-continue.
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AUTOMOTIVE EMISSIONS
ZRXOGEHVXUHO\EHDEOHWRƓQG once supposed that Defeat is has recently passed one million23:
jobs elsewhere - those workers, “Nothing but education; nothing what if, quite apart from setting
that is, who are entirely innocent. right all the damage it has done,
EXWWKHƓUVWVWHSWRVRPHWKLQJ VW were to be compelled to
%XWWKLVQLKLOLVPLVVXUHO\WRZDVWH better”. The total number of put 11 million EVs on the road
an opportunity. Wendell Phillips Electric Vehicles (EVs) on the road before it could sell one more
conventionally-powered car?
2ULILWZHUHUHTXLUHGWRƓQDQFH
the installation of appropriate
electricity charging points at
every petrol station in every
market in which it has sold
defective vehicles? What might
we learn from such courses
of action? It is said that Hope
remained behind when Pandora
opened her Jar: let us hope,
WKHQWRƓQGDPRUHSURGXFWLYH
solution than merely punishing
VW; and let us not give future
historians of this story cause
to recall Pyrrhus’ verdict of his
YLFWRU\DWWKH%DWWOHRI$VFXOXPO
1 Notices of Violations: Volkswagen. US EPA.
http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/cert/violations.htm
2 VW Statement. Volkswagen AG has issued the following information
http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/info_center/en/news/2015/09/Volkswagen_AG_has_issued_the_following_information.html
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4 Yang L, Franco V, Campestrini A, German J, Mock P. ICCT NOX control technologies for Euro 6 Diesel passenger cars.
http://www.theicct.org/nox-control-technologies-euro-6-diesel-passenger-cars
5 Autocar Magazine. 24 September 2015
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/vw-emissions-scandal-other-manufacturers-deny-cheating.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/volkswagen-emissions-eu-idUKL8N1311SO20151106
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8 EU Asks Volkswagen for Emissions Details Within 10 Days. Wall Street Journal 9 November 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-asks-volkswagen-for-emissions-details-within-10-days-1447096891
9 European Environment Agency: Air quality in Europe - 2014 report
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-quality-in-europe-2014
10 EPA Health Nitrogen Dioxide
http://www3.epa.gov/airquality/nitrogenoxides/health.html
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15 Two-thirds of Germans still trust Volkswagen after emissions scandal The Guardian. 20 October 2015.
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19 Yang L, Franco V, Campestrini A, German J, Mock P. ICCT NOX control technologies for Euro 6 Diesel passenger cars. op. cit.
20 Dyson’s action for annulment of the regulation on energy labelling of vacuum cleaners is unsuccessful. 11 November 2015. General Court of the European Union
Judgment in Case T-544/13. PRESS RELEASE No 133/15.
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-11/cp150133en.pdf
21 VW scandal threatens ‘Made in Germany’ image. Reuters. 22 September 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/22/usa-volkswagen-germany-image-idUSL5N11S38X20150922
22 The Volkswagen scandal: yet more proof that business-as-usual for the conventional car industry cannot continue.
http://bellona.org/news/future-energy-system/electric-vehicles/2015-09-the-volkswagen-scandal-yet-another-proof-that-business-as-usual-for-the-conventional-
car-industry-cannot-continue.
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