{"id":344571,"date":"2026-01-26T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/relaxed-co%e2%82%82-rules-save-vw-billions-in-potential-fines\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:39:28","slug":"relaxed-co%e2%82%82-rules-save-vw-billions-in-potential-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/relaxed-co%e2%82%82-rules-save-vw-billions-in-potential-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaxed CO\u2082 rules save VW billions in potential fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/relaxed-coe28282-rules-save-vw-billions-in-potential-fines.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Volkswagen vw id3 id4 id7 meb\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>Volkswagen, in particular, benefits from the relaxation of EU emission requirements, according to new calculations by Dataforce and ICCT. Depending on the calculation, under the original regulations, the German automaker would have had to pay fines of between \u20ac1.7 and \u20ac2.2 billion\u2014though other manufacturers would also have faced significant penalties. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/01\/26\/relaxed-co%e2%82%82-rules-save-vw-billions-in-potential-fines\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/relaxed-coe28282-rules-save-vw-billions-in-potential-fines.jpg&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;Volkswagen vw id3 id4 id7 meb&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;Volkswagen, in particular, benefits from the relaxation of EU emission requirements, according to new calculations by Dataforce and ICCT. Depending on the calculation, under the original regulations, the German automaker would have had to pay fines of between \u20ac1.7&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/relaxed-co%e2%82%82-rules-save-vw-billions-in-potential-fines\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":344572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}