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Cummins to Pay $1.675B for Clean Air Act Violations
“Today, the Justice Department reached an initial agreement with Cummins Inc. to settle claims that, over the past decade, the company unlawfully altered hundreds of thousands of engines to bypass emissions tests in violation of the Clean Air Act. As part of the agreement, the Justice Department will require Cummins to pay $1.675 billion, the largest civil penalty we have ever secured under the Clean Air Act, and the second largest environmental penalty ever secured,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. Continue reading
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Tagged Attorney General Merrick Garland, auto industry commentary, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, Automotive news and analysis, clean air act, cummins, Death of the diesel, emissions defeat devices, Ken Zino, model year 2013 to 2019 RAM 2500 and 3500 pickup truck diesel engines, model year 2019 to 2023 RAM 2500 and 3500 pickup truck diesel engines
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Hyundai Motor and Cummins to Work on Fuel Cell Technology
Hydrogen can be produced from renewable sources, stored economically, and deployed for many industrial and residential energy-generation applications. It is, of course used, in fuel cell passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Continue reading
Nissan 2015 Titan Pickup Gets Cummins Turbo Diesel
Year-to-date Titan has sold 10,000 trucks, a 21% decline from 2011. Market leader Ford sold 60,000 F-Series pickups in the month of July alone. Later this fall, Ram will up the ante in the ongoing pickup truck fuel economy game by offering the first light-duty diesel engine pared with an 8-speed automatic transmission, both exclusives in the segment. Continue reading
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Milestones: First U.S. Diesel Powered Car – Cummins Packard
Fuel prices have risen since then, now ranging between $3 to $4 a gallon. The company Clessie Lyle Cummins founded in 1919 – Cummins Engine Company of Columbus, Indiana – to build engines based on Rudolf Diesel’s compression engine (patented 20 years before) has grown to be a Fortune 500 company with more than $18 billion in annual sales. Continue reading
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Cummins Diesel Penalties Finalized in $1.675B Settlement
“Cummins installed illegal defeat devices on more than 600,000 RAM pickup trucks, which exposed overburdened communities across America to harmful air pollution,” said Assistant Administrator David M. Uhlmann of EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. Continue reading →