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The causes
World domination
Top diesel country sales
Top CO2 emissions
Diesel gate effects
Can the carmaker's new boss drive it out of trouble?
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Overview
The Causes
Emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from cars exhausts cause large numbers of early deathsperhaps
58,000 a year in America alone, one study suggests.
Therefore the scandal that has engulfed Volkswagen this month is no minor misdemeanour or victimless
crime.
The German carmaker has admitted that it installed software on 11m of its diesel cars worldwide, which
allowed them to pass Americas stringent NOx-emissions tests.
But once the cars were out of the laboratory and the software deactivated their emission controls, they
began to spew out fumes at up to 40 times the permitted level.
World domination
Largest car manufacturers vehicle sales, by region
2014, m
2.6
3.5
0.9
3.1
1.1
North America
3.1
Europe
0.7
Asia
1.9
Other
*Year ending
March 31st
2015
Source: Company
0.1
0.3 0.2
0.3
0.5
1.4
0.6
1.2
1
Germany
France
Britain
India
Italy
Spain
Belgium
South Korea
United States
China
1.1
Private cars
Company cars
45
33
30.5
25
19
20
14
9
18
14
10
13
Volskwagen
All carmakers
140
120
100
105
120
110
100
100
90
85
60
The German car companys supervisory board gave the job to one of the favouritesthought
likely to succeed Mr Winterkorn even before the emissionsscandal erupted. But is Mr Mller,
currently in charge at Porsche,VWs sports-car division, the right man for the task?
That will be themain question for Matthias Mller, appointed as the company's newchief
executive on September 25th.
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