German auto giant Volkswagen said Tuesday that it will no longer sell diesel cars in the United States following last year’s scandal over emissions cheating.
The news came from Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, marking the strongest indication yet that diesel vehicles, which used to comprise a quarter of its sales, would no longer be a part of the company’s lineup in the United States.
The news follows VW’s nearly $15 billion court settlement last month with a half-million diesel car owners, the Environmental Protection Agency and California regulators for including software in its line of diesel cars that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests.
The emissions cheating scandal is still reverberating in the U.S. and Europe, with the automaker announcing it will be laying off 30,000 workers in the coming years to account for the billions of dollars lost due to its legal troubles.
