BRUSSELS—The European Union’s antitrust body has opened a formal investigation into “possible collusion” among Germany’s big car makers to limit the development of technology that would reduce harmful exhaust emissions. The probe comes in the wake of several scandals regarding European car manufacturers cheating on emissions testing. BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler confirmed the investigation and said they were cooperating with the commission. One of the charges in that probe was collusion to delay the introduction of emission technologies for trucks. At the time, BMW denied that it had cooperated with its rivals to manipulate diesel engines for reducing nitrogen-oxide emissions.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 18, 2018 09:27 UTC