A Mercedes-Benz logo is displayed connected a utilized conveyance for merchantability astatine a dealership connected November 11, 2025 successful San Diego, CA.
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Mercedes-Benz has reached a $149.6 cardinal colony with U.S. states to resoluteness a long-running probe into allegations of diesel emissions cheating by the German automaker, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Monday.
Under the colony with 48 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, Mercedes volition wage $149.6 cardinal and supply $2,000 payments to eligible owners and lessees whose vehicles person required emissions repairs. Mercedes besides agreed to follow a bid of actions to forestall aboriginal misconduct and comply with oversight requirements, the states said.
The states said Mercedes installed undisclosed, unlawful bundle successful diesel vehicles that hid the existent levels of contamination and improperly lowered emissions during authorities testing, but successful mean driving conditions, the vehicles emitted up to 30 oregon 40 times the ineligible limit.
In 2020, Mercedes-Benz agreed to wage $2.2 cardinal to resoluteness a U.S. authorities diesel emissions cheating probe and claims from 250,000 U.S. conveyance owners.
As portion of the caller colony with the states, the automaker indispensable instantly wage $120 cardinal to the states and $29.6 cardinal is suspended and volition beryllium reduced by $750 for each affected conveyance Mercedes repairs, takes disconnected the market, oregon buys back.
The states launched an probe into Mercedes-Benz successful 2020, pursuing Volkswagen's monolithic diesel emissions scandal, which outgo VW much than $20 cardinal successful fines, penalties, and settlements aft it admitted successful 2015 that it had cheated emissions tests by installing "defeat devices" and blase bundle successful astir 11 cardinal vehicles worldwide.
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