Nissan receives a $4.4 million penalty
By Andrew C., 27 Aug, 2010. 0 Comments
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A $4.4 million penalty is being required from Nissan by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for selling cars that come installed with compliant tailpipe emission monitoring equipment. The findings of CARB show that in excess of 450,000 cars, beginning 2005 to 2007 model years, fail to turn on the "check engine" alert light when emissions reach excessive levels. This problem was detected in 2007 by CARB. The amount would be divided as follows: $3 million will go to the California Air Pollution Control Fund, $1.2 million to the Environmental Education Initiative, and the remaining $200,000 to the National On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) Clearinghouse. This arrangement implies that CARB and Nissan won't be hitting the courts. Nissan has been cooperative and has implemented design changes that will avoid problems in the future. [via autobloggreen]
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