Horn will appear before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations to deliver testimony regarding the company’s efforts to deceive U.S. regulators and its planned remedies.
He will inform the body that VW is in continuing talks with the EPA to work toward a certification plan for its newest TDIs.
There’s little else in the way of news in Horn’s planned testimony. He will stress that the information he can provide regarding the company’s investigation into internal wrongdoing will “by necessity, have to be considered preliminary,” and that all answers he will provide will be based on his “best current recollection and information.”
The U.S. investigation into Volkswagen’s emissions scandal is multi-pronged. The Department of Justice is focusing on Volkswagen’s economic gains to determine a commensurate penalty. Any penalties imposed by the Justice Department would likely be in addition to those recommended by the EPA.
Volkswagen could also potentially face charges stemming from more than $50 million in green-car tax credits the company secured when it first introduced its new TDIs to the U.S. market in 2008.
The first wave of recalls to address existing customer vehicles will tentatively begin in January.
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