Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) has
won German regulatory approval for technical fixes on another 460,000 diesel
cars with illicit emissions control software, it said on Sunday, raising the
number of vehicles cleared for repair to over 5 million.
Approval by Germany's motor
vehicle authority KBA is valid for countries throughout Europe where 8.5
million diesel cars are affected by Volkswagen's emissions test-rigging
scandal. About 11 million autos are implicated globally.
In the United States, where
VW's manipulations came to light eleven months ago, the German group still
lacks technical fixes and is in the process of testing hardware and software
that could help it avoid having to buy back about 475,000 affected cars.
VW said on Sunday that
Germany's KBA had signed off on a fix for models with smaller 1.2-litre diesel
engines, such as the Polo subcompact and Spanish division Seat's Ibiza model.
VW group models with
1.2-litre and 2.0-litre engines only require a software update on pollution
control systems, whereas about 3 million 1.6-litre engines, besides the
software update, also require a mesh to be installed near the air filter.
Wolfsburg-based VW has said
the majority of the 8.5 million cars can be repaired this year but an unknown
number of vehicles will not be fixed until 2017.
Credit:Reuters
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