The European Commission’s antitrust regulators are investigating whether BMW, Daimler, VW-Audi colluded to keep methods to make diesel and gasoline engines cleaner from reaching the market. In announcing the investigation this week, the commission said it had information that the automakers held meetings to discuss limiting the development or rollout of the technology that reduces nitrous oxides and other harmful emissions.
“These technologies aim at making passenger cars less damaging to the environment,” Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commissioner, said in a statement. “If proven, this collusion may have denied consumers the opportunity to buy less-polluting cars, despite the technology being available to the manufacturers.”
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