Nissan admitted to revealing false emissions test data

TOKIO. Nissan has admitted to leaking false exhaust emission test data in most of its Japanese plants

The company has not specified the number of vehicles affected by this problem.

It only admitted that the emissions tests and fuel consumption "s' deviate from the prescribed values". Nissan has promised a "full and complete investigation" of the case and "appropriate measures" to prevent a similar situation from happening again

Nissan has not even published the number of cars concerned and did not apply to vehicles manufactured outside Japan either. However, the car has rechecked the data and confirmed that all vehicles, except the GT-R, meet Japanese standards

This report is damaging to Nissan's reputation, but does not indicate that it has deliberately tried to cheat as a German Volkswagen. [19659902] In his diesel models, he installs software that masks the actual emissions of nitrogen oxides in the tests

The malfunction of the test system

In the case of Nissan , it seems to be very bad functioning of its test system that did not meet the legal requirements, which is not as bad as VW

But it's still a very shocking message because it concerns all Japanese Japanese factories. In other words, it was not a mistake or a one-off failure, but the whole system is "inflated".

Nissan continues to explore what has happened, so that additional details can be found. However, the company estimates that almost all of its cars meet the emission standards

Nissan shares fell by more than 4.5% on Monday in response to this report

last year The automaker has called for about 1.2 million vehicles in Japan after regulators announced that they had not complied with national standards. The subsequent investigation led to the latest revelations