Chrysler's Dieselgate: 100,000 Chrysler trucks said to have emissions "defeat devices"
by Cory Doctorow from on (#28QEJ)
The EPA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) say that since 2014, Chrysler shipped 104,000 trucks with "defeat devices" designed to cheat emissions tests -- like VW's cheating, this software was designed to produce low NOx ratings when the trucks were undergoing emissions tests, but to ramp up NOx emissions during normal road use, trading emissions for fuel-efficiency. (more")