Volkswagen Dieselgate

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This is a brief presentation on the VW scandal that happened back in 2014/2015.

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  1. Hi, my name's Antonio Guajardo
  2. and today's topic I'll be discussing is the Volkswagen diesel
  3. Scandal that happened back in 2014 roughly? 2015.
  4. So who is Volkswagen?
  5. Volkswagen was founded by the German government in
  6. 1937 to produce low cost affordable cars.
  7. Which is why when you translate Volkswagen directly to English,
  8. it means the people's car.
  9. So this all started when the I C C T s did research on several Volkswagen vehicles,
  10. it showed that they had performed seven times higher
  11. than the standard that was needed to meet.
  12. We're testing these vehicles.
  13. So during this time the Dragon was pushing to a new alternative
  14. in their Tv I clean diesel technology that they had announced,
  15. which is funny as in the clean diesel technology really didn't
  16. work since they were actually lying about the emissions standards.
  17. As you see right here by the picture,
  18. it shows that a lot of the nitrous oxide that
  19. diesel burns since it doesn't burn as much co two,
  20. they were pushing for more friendly environmental things.
  21. So they used nitrous oxide technology developed
  22. for the catalytic converters to hold it inside
  23. that way. It would run cleaner and better.
  24. They did this by using a program, a chip
  25. in the computer system
  26. which was able to detect when it was being tested for emissions standards
  27. and it was able to do this pretty easily.
  28. Here's another article I have right here,
  29. Which shows that VW tried to push this under the bus at first by trying to say
  30. that they fixed this problem and there was no
  31. issue and they had recalled these 500,000 vehicles.
  32. But later that year the E. P. A.
  33. Tested that these vehicles shown below several models.
  34. In fact for each year weren't eligible for sale in the US after this whole
  35. um diesel scandal that happened.
  36. So back to what I was talking about the chip the computer
  37. system that they used the way I was able to do this.
  38. It would test the throttle body
  39. on the car like how hard you're pushing on the gas, the standing position,
  40. the engine acceleration,
  41. all that type of stuff and it would turn on and off to be able to detect.
  42. So when people were actually driving these
  43. vehicles nobody knew that they were actually running
  44. dirtier than what they're supposed to be
  45. this later on then forced the ceo martin Wiccan word
  46. you say his name to retire.
  47. I resigned actually.
  48. And he was actually charged, sorry. He was actually charged for several um
  49. several
  50. accounts of, I forgot what exactly he was charged for.
  51. But there were several things he was charged for actually against the U. S.
  52. So after all the fines penalties and financial statements
  53. VW owed about $35 billion dollars in total.
  54. Which is crazy. But here's the thing
  55. VW was not the only company doing this at the time
  56. But this is $35 billion.
  57. Oh but they owed another 1.2 billion to their dealers in the us
  58. who were also going to be facing a humongous backlash from people,
  59. customers, everybody.
  60. So they said earlier, they weren't the only ones that were um,
  61. that we're getting away with this,
  62. it was actually a couple other companies I have right here is an article that shows
  63. Fiat Chrysler is actually using some of their diesel technology as well like that,
  64. where they would trick the system into thinking that
  65. they were actually running cleaner when they weren't.
  66. I have another one right here, that shows Nissan admitted
  67. to falsely um,
  68. saying that their diesel engines ready clean the same thing with Opal,
  69. even the Opel isn't sold here in the US there, internationally known.
  70. So they were pretty big scandal as well.
  71. So this, so this article right here that I'm showing,
  72. it's actually showing that Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes,
  73. the big three german companies all collaboratively work together
  74. to create this deal of technology as well.
  75. I believe Mercedes avoided a fine actually from being charged with them because
  76. they're the ones that write it out Volkswagen in the first place saying that
  77. they were
  78. the ones that did it
  79. right?
  80. So the comparison of what Volkswagen was charged to the safety of Chrysler,
  81. They were charged 35 billion while Fiat Chrysler was only charged 80 million,
  82. which is crazy, but it doesn't make sense once I show you this graph.
  83. So this graph right here actually represents the amount of um,
  84. diesel vehicles and VW cells in comparison to everybody else.
  85. So, right here you can see they used to own, I believe it was Lamborghini.
  86. Um they own Audi still they own Porsche and they still owned Bentley,
  87. those are just the four main companies they own.
  88. And that's not including all the vehicles that are
  89. diesel that they sell there in the US,
  90. the Volkswagen doesn't sell diesel
  91. and just anymore, but overseas it's still a very popular option
  92. and for good reason, but
  93. Since then they haven't told us
  94. diesel engines here since 2015, that was the last year.
  95. But yeah,
  96. in comparison they own 75% of the diesel market compared to everybody else.
  97. So why did we
  98. get such a big hit in comparison to these other companies?
  99. Well, since this happened during the Obama administration,
  100. which is pushing for a very more eco friendly environment type of um
  101. pushed in the future
  102. versus the trump administration where
  103. you know,
  104. they weren't going to find these big companies because that was not what they liked,
  105. it was more towards business side of stuff.
  106. So fiat Chrysler in Delaware, which is on the Mercedes avoided a big fine,
  107. but especially during this time when VW got fined,
  108. it was a big scandal because it was the U. S.
  109. Government going after another foreign government which
  110. makes things a lot more interesting.
  111. So who was affected by this?
  112. Well, nitrous oxide can cause asthma bronchitis
  113. heart disease
  114. and I believe that's how you say em emphysema
  115. and this can cause premature death.
  116. Um, I believe there was a study that said that
  117. due to the um,
  118. What do you call it due to the scandal and all the deal. So that was actually that
  119. actually, that was released.
  120. It was going to cost, I believe 59 premature deaths per year, something like that.
  121. Yeah.
  122. And since then VW has owned up to their mistake after all of this happening.
  123. Um, but they say by 2035 they plan to go on fully electric,
  124. not they're not gonna develop any new combustion engines.
  125. So what this means when they're making combustion
  126. engines doesn't mean they're gonna go fully electric.
  127. It just means they're going to stop the development of new combustion engine types.
  128. So they're not going to put any more research into developing a new gasoline engine.
  129. So,
  130. but it does look like they are going for a new type of
  131. technology push with their I.
  132. D four model that just came out the last two acres fully electric.
  133. And they plan to release the VW bus again, fully electric as well.
  134. And I believe they are trying to plan on moving from combustion
  135. to fully electric by the year 2035 is what they're saying.
  136. Thank you