Germany’s highest civil court has ruled that Volkswagen must compensate customers who took out loans to buy vehicles involved in the carmaker’s dieselgate scandal.
But what is dieselgate and what is its legacy?
THE SCANDAL
The United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) discovered in 2015 that many Volkswagen diesel cars being sold in the United States had software that could detect when they were being tested, changing the performance to improve emissions results.
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