Cozy Relations Complicate Europe’s Bid for New Car Tests
TÜV Nord, the company at the forefront of finding a new testing regimen for European automakers, is also the company that signed off on Volkswagen’s emissions tests.
In Germany, a Cozy Relationship Between Carmakers and Government
The close ties resulted in public officials doing car companies’ bidding, sometimes to the detriment of environmental standards, environmentalists and others say.