Daimler and VW much earlier), they didn’t find evidence of any major crimes. Accor-ding to a recent report by daily Süddeutsche Zeitung that cited numbers of Germany’s Ministry of Transport, about 8,000 BMW diesel cars were equipped with inadmissible systems to shut down emission controls. The company says this was caused by “human error.” In the end, BMW might only have to pay a $12 million fine.

 

 The European Commission is Intensifying its Investigation

 

In addition to these individual cases, there is a broader set of problems that encompasses the entire German auto industry. Just in time for Dieselgate’s third anniversary, the European Commission announced that it is inten-sifying its investigation into whether VW, Audi,...

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