German police raided BMW’s headquarters in Munich on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected cheating on diesel emissions. BMW said in a statement that it was cooperating with authorities. “The BMW Group takes the situation very seriously and has a significant interest in the circumstances being fully explained,” the automaker said.
Prosecutors said that 100 police officers were involved in the raids, which also targeted a second BMW location in Austria. Legal sources said the facility searched in Austria was BMW’s engine plant in Steyr, where the company employs about 4,500 staff and assembles 6,000 engines a day.
BMW, in a separate statement, said prosecutors were looking into “erroneously allocated” software in about 11,400 vehicles of the BMW 750d and BMW M550d luxury models.
Having long denied its cars are equipped with software designed to game emissions tests, BMW said the findings did not reveal a “targeted manipulation” of emissions cleaning.
BMW last month recalled 11,700 cars to fix engine management software after discovering the wrong programming had been installed.
[Source: Reuters]
“BMW last month recalled 11,700 cars to fix engine management software after discovering the wrong programming had been installed.” They couldn’t update the software OTA? Tesla can
Tesla can’t go 700 miles on a charge though.
We installed the Space Invaders when clearly it should have been Mario. The wrong program indeed. Whoops we put the wrong transmission in those cars! Seriously?
No they can’t.
It’s feasible with an electric car plugged in to a charger but a gas vehicle would kill its relatively small starter battery trying to update all the control modules remotely.
There’s also the problem of software crashing during an update and rendering the vehicle unusable, as has happened with Teslas. And for an actual major brand even a 1% failure rate during an update could mean tens of thousands of vehicles stuck in garages causing a PR and logistical nightmare.
That’s great… I mean it’s no use to the hundreds of thousands of people waiting for Tesla to figure out how to build the cars in the in first place… but yeah… OTA updates, bravo…
:-D
German police busy keeping the world safe from diesel emissions while their country goes to sh*t with “no go zones”.
Yeah, that fictional plight of “no go zones” that dumbass politicians made up sure does have some idiots convinced.
Another witch hunt… like there isn’t more pressing matters.
okay drumpf
They’re just putting one nail at a time into diesel’s coffin. It’s pretty much over for diesels.
I wonder if they’re looking for documentation to contradict BMW’s public statement that the software was installed on the wrong vehicles. Personally I wonder how this could happen without seriously impacting the performance of those cars.