Carmaker Volkswagen said on Thursday it would offer to refit almost a million more diesel cars in Germany to reduce harmful emissions, as the country's auto industry is racked by overlapping scandals. At an industry-government summit on August 2nd, Volkswagen "will offer to refit four million vehicles and thereby significantly reduce emissions" chief executive Matthias Müller said after meeting Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. Of those four million, some 2.5 million are covered by a recall of diesel vehicles the world's biggest carmaker introduced after admitting in 2015 to cheating regulatory emissions tests in 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide, a company spokesman said. German consumers are increasingly disenchanted with diesel vehicles after Volkswagen's long-running scandal and fears that some cities could ban them from their streets at times of peak pollution. Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler recently announced a voluntary recall for some three million vehicles across Europe to reduce NOx output.

Source: The Local July 27, 2017 12:00 UTC