I would to hear the case for Volkswagen. That in the real world these 40x more nitrogen oxides emitted really don’t cause that much harm plus the diesel fuel was burned more efficiently so less of those normal diesel pollutants were put out per mile.
I’ll bet that Volkswagen is so scared/cowed/intimidated by billions in EPA fines that it will not make such a case publicly but an independent investigator can.
I smell a rat. Rat #1 is that nitrogen oxides are greenhouse gasses
SEE THE GLOBAL WARMING TIE IN>>>>
From NY Times Comments:
According to a similar article in the WSJ, these cars emit 40X the legal allowable amount of N02, a very powerful greenhouse gas. This is an incredibly deplorable act worthy of nothing less than jail time for numerous players. For this to have been implemented for 6 years, I can only imagine the number of researchers and employees who have had their hands on this, before and during implementation. This is not a program that ostensibly implements everyone from the CEO to the engineers to the high-level technicians.
They were not 40X. They were 1X on flat highways with cruise control. About 10X on hills according to the researchers. CARB and EPA made up the "up to 40".