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Mercedes manipulated emissions in 1m cars

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Frankfurt: German luxury automaker Daimler manipulated the engines of around one million diesel vehicles to make them appear less polluting, local media reported on Thursday, raising echoes of competitor Volkswagen’s ‘dieselgate’ scandal.


“The Stuttgart-based firm sold vehicles with higher levels of damaging emissions than allowed for almost a whole decade between 2008 and 2016, in Europe and the United States,” daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung said.


Along with regional broadcasters NDR and WDR, the newspaper had access to a search warrant from a Stuttgart court allowing prosecutors to raid 11 sites belonging to the Mercedes-Benz and Smart maker in late May.


Investigators suspect that the world’s largest luxury carmaker used a similar so-called “defeat device” to Volkswagen, which in 2015 admitted to manipulating emissions readings on some 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide.


Software in the motor runs the emissions treatment system at a higher setting when it detects the vehicle is undergoing regulatory testing. — AFP


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