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      14 days ago

      Seems like it also doesn’t happen in Germany, as the post title doesn’t match the article.

      The two people sent to jail are middle managers (Head of XY), not executives.

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    In Canada we were told that putting execs in jail would “hurt jobs” and we had to pass a law that said they just get a fine instead.

    The execs in question were caught selling hookers to Qaddafi’s son.

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    13 days ago

    Before anyone becomes too happy: the post’s title is inaccurate, the two people sent to jail are only middle managers:

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    One insanity in the following years was how they thought people still wanted their next generation diesel.

    I’ve been working for them in the 2010s with the department to organise the staff car fleet. We ordered many electric vehicles years ahead from production and planned it all around electric vehicles: Charging stations, operating distance, some hybrids for long distance, software to calculate trips etc.

    Then a few months before we needed them, they said: We overproduced on the latest diesel generation and can’t keep up with the demand for electric vehicles, so we have to sell the ones you ordered. You can either go with a Tesla (for official Volkswagen business trips!) or have the diesel for free.

    It felt like there was a hysteria: Decision makers got it in their heads that the “hype” for electric vehicles was ideology-driven and not something people with buying power actually wanted today or in the near future. Bit like the republican administration thinking that “woke” is our main problem. Meanwhile, huge research and development departments did come up with the electric vehicles they sell today (and fully working hydrogen prototypes you won’t see in a store, just to be safe) and must have been quite frustrated that so few were produced.

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    This sounds like actual impactful consequences and accountability for the rich exploitative asshole executives actually responsible? Did I forget to wake up in the morning?

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    The dieselgate scandal is why I am so disappointed when I heard that Volkswagen outsold Tesla in Europe for the number one spot since the start of the year. I have been hoping it would a more scrupulous company (and non-Chinese EV manufacturer) that took the number one spot for European EV cars sold.

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        They only owned up after lying and obfuscating for years. California said they work with manufacturers when they are out of compliance, but brought their lawsuit because VW wouldn’t cooperate

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    It took 10 years? Well even longer because they figured something was wrong before it came public.

    The court sent the former head of diesel engine development behind bars for four years and six months, and the former head of powertrain electronics to two years and seven months.

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    well I guess there are some places where the law does not always serve the rich, that is mildly good news

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    Let’s go Germany!! Shouldn’t be the exception to the rule