Cummins pickup truck engines systematically tricked air pollution controls, feds say
Cummins pickup truck engines systematically tricked air pollution controls, feds say
The DOJ alleges Cummins Inc. installed hundreds of thousands of devices that can bypass emissions sensors on 630,000 RAM pickup truck engines.
They basically all did it, some just got caught earlier. I said it back when they all hit on Volkswagen: It is not like that all the other companies have found the magic trick to get emissions miraculously down, and just VW was to stupid to find it somehow, and had to cheat. This time it's Cummins they caught. All you have to do is look closely, and you'll find that they cheat, because in reality, none of them have that magic trick.
That's what diesel exhaust fluid is for, it reduces NOx emissions.
The VW engines were small and didn't have DEF, so everyone was like "how did you reduce NOx enough to meet U.S. EPA standards?" And VW was like "we're just super smart like that", which turned out to be bullshit.
Cummins knew better and had better emissions controls available, so this is full on stupid on their part.
in reality, none of them have that magic trick.
Yes they do. It's called an electric motor. But that requires revitalizing infrastructure in order to accommodate fast charging across an urban landscape so utility trucks can top up whenever needed. And, of course, a company like Cummins being willing to make them.
But we can't get off that oil teat.
Although these trucks are regularly bought just for vanity, they’re also the go-to trucks for cross country hauling. And regardless of infrastructure, current electric tech doesn’t do so hot there.
Although, part of their draw compared to others in their class was that they had the “best engines”…
You still need to get that electric from somewhere and like half the country still runs on either coal or oil.
Earlier this year I saw that NY State is outlawing gas stoves and gas and oil (hot water) heaters in new residences. The funny thing is that NY State gets over 50% of its energy from oil fired energy plants. So instead of smaller places using gas and oil maybe a few times a day, they're going to be putting increased loads on an already stressed system (at least in the case of NYC, where this is largely targeted since it contains a good amount of the state's population). They're not really helping anything.
If I'm doing my math right, $1.675B/630k vehicles is around $2.5k/vehicle. Barely cutting into the profits on what I assume is Dodge's most successful line.
The shocking part about this is that they installed a dedicated defeat device and expected no one to notice. Come on guys, cars are software, if you want to end run the emissions standards just write more creative code.
We can't let our customers access the EMS! They'll spoof emissions! /s
Maybe 1% of 1% of people would actual play with their cars and tune them. Even then, most wouldn't make the cars into polluting machines.
I think it'd be significantly more than that, but that's probably bias from the kind of people I tend to be around. I'm thinking maybe as much as 5%.
That said however, we do have the assholes who like to "roll coal".
I wonder if enforcing the destruction of human-viable-planet could be considered either
- Crime Against Humanity
or, an
- Act of Terrorism
They escalate to kill more of the next-generation,
then ENFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR ACTUAL CRIME, if integrity is still any part of the "law" that is held to "rule".
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Oh, haha, first time in capitalism, huh?
I guess they did see it cummin.
I came here for this.
I came
... hundreds of thousands of 2013 to 20199 RAM 2500 and 3500 pickup trucks.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. They really have those future sales locked in.
They should also look at the 5.0 liter Cummins that Nissan used in their Titan trucks.
I'd say go a step further an look at all their tier IV engines (the ones that are currently in everything from genrators to locomotives to construct equipment). If they aren't in compliance outside of testing that could open them up to lawsuits from customers and competitors on top of the fines.
that will be 35cents fine which your company can pay with loans over the next 9999 years thank you