The European Commission is opening an investigation into a leading group of car manufacturers over whether they colluded on clean emissions technologies. The so-called “circle of five” car manufacturers includes BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche. “If proven, this collusion may have denied consumers the opportunity to buy less polluting cars, despite the technology being available to the manufacturers,” says Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition.
The EU Commission is concerned that the deployment of emissions limiting technologies may have been hampered by meetings between BMW, Daimler (which owns Mercedes Benz) and the VW Group (owners of Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche). In particular, the…
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