The EPA has approved Volkswagen diesel fix that will apply to 326,000 vehicles.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resource Board (CARB) have approved a fix that will include hardware and software upgrades. One of the major changes is replacing an emissions catalyst, and vehicles will lose fuel economy by as much as 2 mpg.
The fix will apply to 98 percent of the 2.0-liter diesel engines in the U.S., and regulators added by saying extensive testing of the fix shows it will not affect “vehicle reliability or durability.”
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The vehicles covered by the fix include the 2009-2014 Jetta TDI, 2009-2014 Jetta SportWagen TDI, 2010-2014 Golf TDI, 2012-2014 Beetle and Beetle Convertible TDI, and 2010-2013 Audi A3 TDI.
In total, the German automaker has already spent $6.3-billion to repurchase cheating diesel vehicles with the 2.0-liter TDI engine. Reuters reports the fix helps bring Volkswagen one step closer to being able to resell or export those vehicles currently being stored across the U.S.
[Source: Reuters]
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