Report: VW could pay $10.2 billion to settle emissions scandal cases

Published June 23, 2016 5:45pm ET



Volkswagen pay about $10.2 billion to settle claims from its emissions cheating scandal that has tossed the German automaker into chaos.

Citing two anonymous sources, the Associated Press reported much of the money would go toward the 482,000 owners of VW “clean diesel” vehicles that were caught up in the scandal. The vehicles contained so-called “defeat devices” that allowed the vehicles to pass emissions tests, but then the software would switch to a normal mode when tests were done, allowing the cars to spew about 40 times the legal limit of nitrogen into the atmosphere.

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