Daimler to pay £1.17bn to settle emissions cheating probes in US

(Lewis Whyld/PA)

Car maker Daimler and subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA have agreed to pay 1.5 billion dollars (£1.17 billion) to the US government and California state regulators to resolve emissions cheating allegations, officials said.

The US Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California attorney general’s office said Daimler violated environmental laws by using so-called defeat device software to circumvent emissions testing, and sold about 250,000 cars and vans in the US with diesel engines that did not comply with state and federal laws.