Volkswagen AG said on Wednesday its investigations into potentially false carbon-dioxide and fuel-consumption data showed deviations for a much smaller number of vehicles than originally suspected, and the company no longer expects a €2 billion ($2.18 billion) hit to earnings in the matter.
In November, Volkswagen said it had provided potentially false information on fuel use and CO2 emissions for around 800,000 vehicles, widening the pollution scandal beyond nitrogen oxide emissions.
But this didn’t bear out in investigations, Volkswagen said Wednesday, and only about 36,000 could be affected in the CO2 matter.
“Following extensive internal investigations and measurement checks, it is now clear that almost all of these model variants do correspond to the CO2 figures originally determined,” Volkswagen said.
They can be sold without limitations, it said.
