European commission warned of car emissions test cheating, five years before VW scandal | Environment | The Guardian
Already five years ahead of #dieselgate, the European Commission was "warned by its own experts that a car maker was suspected of cheating emissions tests".
Speaking with the Guardian, Kathleen van Brempt, who chairs the
committee leading the inquiry into the affair, referred to an
"astonishing collective blindness to the defeat device issue in the
European commission".
VW was caught by US authorities last year using defeat device software –
but the EU may have known of its existence as early as 2010.
Photograph: Julian Stratenschulte/EPA
