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Topic: Volkswagen

Toyota beats Volkswagen to become world’s top-selling automaker first time in 5 years

Toyota outperformed Volkswagen AG in 2020, a painful year for automakers that saw industry-wide factory and showroom shutdowns, dragging sales down 14% from 2019.

SC dismisses Skoda Volkswagen’s plea challenging FIR for ‘use of cheat device’ in car

The FIR was lodged in UP after a customer accused the carmaker of allegedly using a 'cheat' or 'defeat device', which is installed to manipulate pollution emission tests in vehicles.

Suicide bombing ‘ad’ not made by Volkswagen, it’s actually a 15-year-old spoof

The 32-second video going viral on Twitter features a man detonating a bomb while parked in a car on a busy street. However, the explosion is confined to the vehicle.

The electric cars are here. Now how about selling them

Customers don’t like paying up for new technology they’re unsure about, and they’re worried they won’t reliably get to where they want to go.

Small cars are being driven out of existence in the West, like the Volkswagen Beetle

Small cars are becoming an endangered species in the West. Consumers have voted with their wallets by buying SUVs & carmakers have been happy to oblige.

Volkswagen fined Rs 500 crore by NGT for damage to environment

The NGT said that Volkswagen's use of a 'cheat device' in diesel cars caused the damage, and directed it to deposit the money in two months.

Volkswagen was injurious to health: How NGT caught auto major cheating

In its report, a panel set up by the National Green Tribunal stated that Volkswagen cars released around 48.678 tonnes of nitrogen oxide in 2016.

NGT slams Volkswagen for not depositing Rs 100 crore as per its 2018 order

NGT had directed Volkswagen to deposit the amount with the CPCB over its alleged use of a ‘cheat device’ in diesel cars to beat environmental norms.

On Camera

India’s land acquisition disputes have a way out. Both Japan and Gujarat have used it

India’s archaic land laws fuel delays, cost overruns and gridlock in everything from highways to housing. Something has to give.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.