At the VW, the board was told that they would not pick up any orders for hybrid and gas cars, and they would be able to ship electric cars early in the year 2019.
The problem is that there are not enough gauges and experts to get the type approvals that conform to the new standard. Electric, hybrid and gas models are less suitable for conventional wagons, so these eco-friendly models had to be rearranged.
VW needs to examine and license approximately 260 model variants. In the name of the Volkswagen brand, only 4 models, the Audi 7 model, were approved. Thus, VW is the weakest of German car manufacturers, said Welt am Sonntag, adding that more than one hundred models were tested at both BMW and Mercedes.
The company expected the transition to be better, "said CEO Herbert Diess. According to him, policy-makers are wrong, poorly prepared for the introduction of the new standard, instead of just two or three years instead of just two and a half years ago, manufacturers were given only one and a half years to prepare.
According to Welt am Sonntag, however, this is only one of the main factors, the "chaos" at VW can be attributed to the fact that professionals are seized by the company's task of exploding diesel fuel in 2015, transforming the engine control software of the affected models.
According to the report, at VW, some 250,000 new products could be accumulated, which they can not sell because there is no new type approval from September.
The company has already announced that due to the accumulation of inventories, the production will be discontinued in the second half of the year, which can reverse the financial results.
In the first half of this year, VW achieved a profit after tax of 6.613 billion euros (2116 billion forints), an increase of 2.1 percent compared to a year ago 6,474 billion euros. The group sold 5.148 million vehicles, an increase of 7 percent compared to the previous year's 4,809 million. Sales amounted to € 119.377 billion, up 3.5 percent from a year earlier to € 115.349 billion.
The group includes the names of Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, Seat, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Porsche, as well as the Ducati sports motorcycle and its own branded vehicles, and Scania and MAN trucks are also manufactured by VW.
WLTP (Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedures) standard was introduced following the diesel scandal of VW, the new metering process is expected to show more accurate how much a car consumes in daily use and how much fuel releases harmful substances.
In the European Union, from September 1, 2017, WLTP values should be given for newly developed models, and from September 1, 2018, the WLTP standard should also be applied to all previously developed but newly manufactured passenger cars.
