Backfired: When VW Lied To America
Duration:
1 x 62'
Year:
2018
Available Language/s:
English
Sub Genre:
Factual
Director:
Dale Bell
Synopsis:
Narrated by the American journalist, Warren Olney, spotlights the "inside story" of how clean air regulators led by Dan Carder and his grad students at tiny West Virginia University, and Mary Nichols, Chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) team, uncovered the massive scandal at Volkswagen -- the use of encoded emission defeat devices. We discover how VW's top executives lied, cheated and knowingly poisoned the world for 10 years in a ruthless quest for power, profit and absolute domination of the world's auto markets...
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