VW’s U.S. Chief Tells Congress Car Retrofits May Take Years
- Decision to cheat emissions tests wasn't made by the company
- Cars will be fixed instead of bought back, VW's Horn says
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Volkswagen AG’s top U.S. executive said that the emissions cheating was carried out by a few engineers in Germany without any formal decision by the company and conceded it may take years to retrofit 430,000 diesel vehicles.
Testifying before a congressional committee in Washington, Michael Horn, the president and chief executive officer of Volkswagen of America, apologized and promised a full investigation of what he said was cheating carried out by a couple of software engineers in Germany.