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Cummins Diesel Cheats Emissions Tests - Fined $1.6B by US (www.thecooldown.com)

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Cummins Diesel Cheats Emissions Tests - Fined $1.6B by US

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From reading the article, it was approximately 1 million vehicles in violation, all pickup trucks. That works out to $1,600 per vehicle.

Don't take this the wrong way—the fine is large, but $1,600 on vehicles that sell for fifty times that still seems... thin.

[–] mikezane@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is Cummings, they make the engines, not the truck. I have no clue what they charge car companies for their engines but I know it is a lot closer to $1,600 than the cost of the completed truck.

[–] Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 8 months ago

You can buy a Cummins crate engine for $10,000. Assuming that’s a large markup compared to the negotiated amount I’m sure the vehicle manufacturers got, I would bet they’re being fined around 20 percent of what they made off of selling the engines to manufacturers.

Probably not enough to kill the company, but definitely enough to make them think twice on doing it again (almost like what fines should be….).