FRANKFURT • Germany's three largest carmakers secretly agreed to equip their vehicles with inferior emissions equipment, European authorities said last week - a finding that could expose Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW to a large share of the blame for poor air quality in Europe that is believed to cause thousands of deaths annually.
The preliminary decision by the European Commission escalates a scandal that began in 2015 when Volkswagen confessed that it had equipped millions of vehicles in Europe and the United States with software designed to dupe emissions testers.
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