Supplier Warned VW Of Illegal Diesel ‘Defeat Device’—In 2007

2014 Volkswagen Passat TDI

German supplier Bosch, the longtime manufacturer of fuel-system and emissions components to Volkswagen, warned the automaker that using software that would circumvent emissions rules in normal, publicly sold vehicles was illegal. That wasn’t last week, or earlier this year. It was in 2007—a full year before many of the “clean… …read more