Daimler has hired Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu for this purpose.
Yet another car manufacturing company has come under the lens for its diesel engine emission claims.
Audit firm, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has been hired by Daimler to assist its internal investigation into its diesel-engine emissions technology which was requested by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The internal investigation is to check whether Daimler used devices to manipulate its emission tests. This comes in the wake of Volkswagen AG admitting to installing software to do so.
Last week, Daimler said it was in the process of conducting an internal investigation of its certification process for its diesel exhaust emissions in the U.S., at the request of the Justice Department.
A German newspaper Der Spiegel had earlier reported that the staff at Deloitte were combing through e-mails and documents at Sindelfingen, Daimler’s engine development site and at Stuttgart, its corporate headquarters.
Earlier this year in April, owners of U.S. Mercedes diesel cars had filed a class action suit claiming that their vehicles contained a “defeat device” that wss used to cheat emission testing norms, an accusation that Daimler vehemently denied. The Mercedes brand of cars is owned by Daimler.
This investigation, comes six after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency saying that it would review all light duty diesel vehicles in the United States following Volkswagen’s admission that a software has been used in its diesel vehicles for its diesel cars which were sold since 2009. The software essentially allowed the emission of pollutants 40 times their legal permissible limit.
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