BMW is one of the few manufacturers that has so far kept a clean slate in the emissions scandal. But it may now become stained. According to a media report, the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) has initiated a hearing against the Munich manufacturer on suspicion of exhaust manipulation in an older version of the X3 SUV model.
According to the report in the newspaper ‘Bild’, a spokesperson for the authority explained that there was a suspicion of an impermissible shutdown mechanism in the engine controls of an X3 with a two-liter diesel engine. According to internal files, the car should emit less nitrogen oxides if, among other things, the air conditioning is turned off, the newspaper reports.
It remains unclear how many vehicles are affected. At the request of the Reuters news agency, BMW said it had already provided information about the process reported by ‘Bild’ in the 2023 half-year report.
The interim statement said the BMW Group was “in contact with two responsible registration authorities in Europe to clarify questions about emissions behavior arising as part of market surveillance of measurement results for a BMW vehicle model built between September 2010 and March 2014.” This model is a BMW X3 20d. The hearing is still pending. BMW will therefore not respond further to individual questions in this context.
The diesel scandal in the German car industry has caused a lot of commotion in recent years. It started when Volkswagen admitted in 2015, under pressure from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that it had manipulated diesel emission values using software.
Source: Krone
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