Meeting of the Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS) in Brussels. Hearing with Ulrich EICHHORN, Chief Technology Officer, Volkswagen Group and questions by BIDEGAIN Pablo Zalba (EPP, ES), rapporteur, Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY (ALDE, NL), Rebecca HARMS (Greens/EFA, DE), Marcus PRETZELL (ENF, DE) and&nbsp;Mark DEMESMAEKER (ECR, BE).

Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector: hearing of Ulrich EICHHORN, Chief Technology Officer, Volkswagen Group (EBS) -

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SOUNDBITE (German), Ulrich EICHHORN, Chief Technology Officer, Volkswagen Group, We must be clear, that after official measurements in France, Germany and the UK, and after the independent measurements of the vehicles concerned and the software, that we are still among the cleanest cars among the competition EU 6 is among the cleanest of all for road transport.

SOUNDBITE (Spanish), BIDEGAIN Pablo Zalba (EPP, ES), rapporteur, Was the software in question necessary to comply European mission level during the type approval process?

SOUNDBITE (German), Ulrich EICHHORN, Chief Technology Officer, Volkswagen Group, We are replacing that software in the cars in agreement with the authorities, we have a clear recall system. Could it perhaps be in the requirements KBA for every engine stroke component situation when it&rsquo;s come to performance, consumption, emissions, etc. That would be exactly the same before and after the refit.

SOUNDBITE (English), Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY (ALDE, NL), Why don&rsquo;t you simply cut the maximum engine power to enable permanent functionality of the emission control instead of doing the other way round?

SOUNDBITE (English), Ulrich EICHHORN , Chief Technology Officer, Volkswagen Group, The IGR system is a vital part of that and it is a part of the engine. Because its drives the engine, the engine&rsquo;s row performance and its part of the engine itself. The exhaust after treatment, emissions control system in the global sense, is in this context the LNT or is the LCR , its of course the DOC as well , an all those systems. On you question about defat device, we do not consider the software defat device, yes, we have agreed to the German authorities to do the comprehensive recall and remove this peace of software.

SOUNDBITE (German), Rebecca HARMS (Greens/EFA, DE), During the test the results were very satisfactory under lab conditions, under 180 mg, but outside the test cycle, on the road, emissions continued to be very high , 553-569 mg. So I will like to understand how can we&rsquo;ve got that very large difference?

SOUNDBITE (German), Friedrich EICHLER, Powertrain-Development Chief Volkswagen Group, Well for the Euro 5 standards that you&rsquo;ve mentioned it&rsquo;s a technology which has been developed 7 or 8 years ago, and has to be clear to all of us that for 2 L vehicles and 1.2 - 3 cylinders vehicles with the software solutions the software has been restructures such that on the roller and on the road we achieved optimum results with the test cycle, and comply with the legislation.

SOUNDBITE (German), Marcus PRETZELL (ENF, DE), You&rsquo;ve said that mistaken the software was at lower level, in Volkswagen so the error was committed at a lower level, not at management level. You&rsquo;ve talk also about the unpleasant talks that may take place when you have to explain to management that you can&rsquo;t comply with the rules. Now a worker doesn&rsquo;t gain for manipulating the software, apart from avoiding those unpleased talks. So do we have to understand that that worker is in such a work climate that he will rather violate the law than have frank talks with the bosses?

SOUNDBITE (German), Ulrich EICHHORN , Chief Technology Officer, Volkswagen Group, If that the way workers felt, that that quite possible. A point I didn&rsquo;t mentioned in my introduction, is that we are working on a massive change of culture, Matthias Muller said that on his strategy 2020-2025.

SOUNDBITE (Dutch), Mark DEMESMAEKER (ECR, BE), Which of the cars the EU or US diesel vehicles were the cleanest ones, or give the best performance for air quality?

SOUNDBITE (German), Friedrich EICHLER, The technology that we use in the US to meet the legislators requirements, are the same ones as for Euro 6 vehicles. Euro 5 techno in Europe, if you look at the current US emission standards that that&rsquo;s correct, the US technology was the one which was more comprehensive in technical terms. In other words, you choose technology depending on the regulatory framework.

Ημερομηνία συμβάντος	13/7/2016
Reference:	I124530V
Copyright:	© European Union
copyrightYear:	2016

Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector: hearing of Ulrich EICHHORN, Chief Technology Officer, Volkswagen Group (EBS) -

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