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VOLKSWAGEN EMISSIONS SCANDAL A corporation is a legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners.Corporations enjoy most of the rights and responsibility that an individual possesses, that is, a corporation has the right to enter into contracts, loans and borrow money, sue and be sued, hire employees, own assets and pay taxes therefore Volkswagen as a corporation is a German multinational automotive manufacturing company whose headquarters is in Wolfsburg, Germany.It is mainly involved in the designs, manufacturing and distribution of passengers, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, engines and turbo machinery and also offers related services including financing, leasing and fleet management. The Agency with the duty of Environmental Protection found that many Volkswagen vehicles that were being sold in America had a ‘defeat device'- software in the diesel engines which could trigger when they were subjected to test, shifting the performance accordingly so as to better the results. When on motion, the cars would emit more than 40% Nitrogen Oxide more than what is allowed in the United States, specifically, but during lab tests, the device would assume the car's lowest emissions production. The persons owning Volkswagen agree to the alteration of the omission tests through cheating. Volkswagen has had a very big drive to trade their diesel cars in the USA, backed by huge marketing campaigns trumpeting its cars low emissions. The USA’s findings cover over 482,000 vehicles in the USA only, that is, inclusive of the Volkswagen manufactured Audi A3 and the models Passat, Golf, Jetta, and Beetle. Volkswagen has concurred that at least 11 million cars worldwide,
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