Carmakers to face fines for supplying vehicles with emissions defeat devices

Vehicle manufacturers will soon face fines if they supply vehicles designed to cheat emissions tests, the government has announced.

Under new regulations, manufacturers could be made to pay up to £50,000 for each new vehicle found to be fitted with a emissions ‘defeat device’.

The rules have been brought in following a government consultation which saw overwhelming support for measures to crack down on emissions cheats.

This comes following the publication of the government’s Clean Air Strategy, which set out a range of measures to tackle air pollution.

The Road Vehicles (Defeat Device, Fuel Consumption and Type Approval) Regulations 2018 will be laid in Parliament before coming into force on 1 July 2018.