Friday 5th November 2021
After allegations of the environmental aid
Federal Motor Transport Authority relieves Daimler
According to a report by Deutsche Umwelthilfe, the car manufacturer Daimler is said to have built inadmissible shutdown devices in diesel models. These new documents are intended to prove the group’s involvement in the diesel scandal. But they have long been known to the Federal Motor Transport Authority.
The Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) sees no evidence of previously unknown defeat devices at Mercedes-Benz in an expert report submitted by Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH). “In the report, eight defeat devices of the relevant model with the OM 642 diesel engine are named. We are aware of these,” said a KBA spokesman. They have already been checked and found to be “not inadmissible”.
The DUH had previously presented an expert opinion in which it sees new evidence of the involvement of the car maker Daimler with its master brand Mercedes-Benz in the diesel scandal. The main features of the report had already been published the day before.
The automotive software expert Felix Domke documented in the report on behalf of a US law firm “a total of eight previously unknown disconnection devices in a Mercedes-Benz E-Class with Euro 6 diesel”, according to the DUH. These are “clearly illegal” and lead to nitrogen oxide emissions on the road well above the legally stipulated limit value, according to the environmental aid agency.
A spokesman for Daimler, on the other hand, had announced that the “parameterizations described” were already known and “should not be assessed as inadmissible disconnection devices”. Since the diesel issue became known, all vehicle models on the market with diesel units from different manufacturers have been examined, according to the KBA. The legally inadmissible defeat devices were named and dealt with in the context of product recalls. The vehicle model mentioned was initially part of a recall. However, the software programming is different from other models that are currently being recalled. “Therefore, this model was not inadmissible.”