Inside VW’s Campaign of Trickery
As a West Virginian I’m proud that research by two graduate students the WVU Center for Alternative Emissions Technology that led to Volkwagen’s acknowledgement of strategic and tactical errors that led to this bottom line (my emphasis):
The research begun with a $70,000 grant eventually cost Volkswagen more than $22 billion in fines and legal settlements, far more than the cost of equipping the cars with adequate pollution control equipment in the first place.
No one was more surprised at the outcome than the team at West Virginia University. “We never set out to get crosswise with anyone,” said Dan Carder, who oversaw the Volkswagen research as director of the university’s Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions. “We were just kind of doing our jobs.”
As often happens, the coverup was more incriminating than the initial crime.
(Damned regulations!! /s)