As far as it is brought to the agenda today, the giant Japanese Automakers are under investigation for diesel emissions cheating.
According to local newspaper Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun, Japan’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Large-scale investigation to determine whether Japanese automakers are complying with diesel emissions regulations started. According to the report, Daihatsu and Hino brands had previously admitted to cheating in safety and emission tests, and the concern that there might be more problems in the overall industry turned into a major investigation. No company has been directly accused yet, but it is said that there may be interesting developments in this regard in the coming months. Before this, BMW, one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers based in Germany, was investigated for alleged emission cheating. Germany’s federal transport authority, Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), last year announced that BMW’s diesel exhaust announced that it has launched an investigation into allegations of manipulation of emission values. During the automaker’s certification/emission tests under laboratory conditions, the agency claimed to have used a special device to achieve significantly lower exhaust gas emissions than in reality. BMW did not accept these claims, and it was stated that the previous generation BMW X3 with a 2.0-liter turbo diesel engine was at the center of the incident.
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When emissions scandal is mentioned, Volkswagen company comes to mind immediately. The Germany-based manufacturer, which was on the world’s agenda with the deceptive software application that broke out in 2015, was faced with fines reaching billions of dollars after 5 years. Within the scope of the investigation and lawsuit that started after the scandal that broke out in America, the brand’s American CEO Michael Horn resigned, while important names such as engineer James Liang and senior manager Oliver Schmidt were given prison sentences that cost them their careers.