Dieselgate – level 2

Dieselgate

31-03-2021 07:00

Dieselgate was a scandal which happened in 2015. The German carmaker Volkswagen used illegal software to cheat emissions tests in the US.

The company paid more than 38 billion dollars in legal costs, and it had to replace some parts in its cars.

Volkswagen still develops new and better technologies, and last week, the company introduced its latest electric car in Dresden, Germany. Dieselgate still did not end, and Volkswagen is still having problems which are connected to the scandal. The company investigated what happened in Dieselgate, and it seemed that its former boss and former Audi boss were responsible for the scandal.

Both men said that they did nothing wrong, but Volkswagen said that they had to pay some money to end the scandal.

Difficult words: scandal (when something happens and many people get angry about it), cheat (to make someone believe something which is not true), replace (to take something away and put something new in the same place).

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