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The German authorities has ordered automobile maker Daimler to recall 238,000 autos in Germany after they had been discovered to be fitted with emissions-cheating software program.
Across Europe a whole of 774,000 diesel autos include "defeat devices" and Daimler stated it might recall all of them.
The diesel variations of the Mercedes C-Class, Vito and GLC fashions are the principle ones affected, the ministry stated.
Daimler stated it might refit the software program however didn't admit wrongdoing.
It comes three years after VW admitted having fitted "cheat" devices in autos that made their engines seem much less polluting than they really had been.
About eleven million automobiles worldwide had been affected in that case.
German transport minister Andreas Scheuer stated the ministry and Daimler had "negotiated intensively for many hours" on Monday.
Afterwards the ministry ordered the "immediate" recall of Daimler fashions in Germany as a result of they contained "illegal shutdown devices".
"Daimler states that it will, at maximum speed and with co-operative transparency with the authorities, remove the applications in the engine control system which the government objects to," he stated.
The Transport Ministry solely has authority to power the recall of autos inside Germany.
Daimler refused to elaborate on the place the opposite autos can be recalled. It additionally stated the legality of the software program would nonetheless want to be clarified.
Earlier Daimler chairman, Dieter Zetsche, had stated a technical resolution had been discovered to the software program issues and that he didn't anticipate the corporate to be fined.
It will not be the primary time Daimler has confronted issues with its emissions software program. Last 12 months it retrofitted three million Mercedes diesel automobiles constructed since 2011, however didn't name the train a recall.
Evercore ISI analyst Arndt Ellinghorst stated the recall wouldn't hurt the corporate.
"We don't see any evidence that Daimler was designing software to deliberately cheat on emission testing."
Other automobile makers have been discovered to have fitted defeat devices.
BMW recalled 12,000 diesel automobiles over the problem in February, whereas Porsche recalled 60,000 in May. Neither automobile maker admitted wrongdoing.