BRUSSELS: EU regulators have given Volkswagen 10 days to clarify its own admission that nearly a million of the company’s cars emit more CO2 pollution than originally claimed, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
In a letter sent to the company on Monday, European Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete asks VW CEO Matthias Mueller to clearly specify which cars were affected by the “irregularities”.
The letter is the first step in a long process that could eventually bring millions of euros (dollars) in fines for VW, which is already embroiled in a huge pollution scandal over diesel emissions.
“I can confirm that a letter from Canete was sent to the CEO of Volkswagen yesterday,” Commission spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen told a news briefing.
