Volkswagen AG said on Wednesday its investigations into potentially false carbon-dioxide and fuel-consumption data showed deviations for a much smaller number of vehicles than originally suspected, and the company no longer expects a €2 billion ($2.18 billion) hit to earnings in the matter.<br />In November, Volkswagen said it had provided potentially false information on fuel use and CO2 emissions for around 800,000 vehicles, widening the pollution scandal beyond nitrogen oxide emissions.<br />But this didn’t bear out in investigations, Volkswagen said Wednesday, and only about 36,000 could be affected in the CO2 matter.<br />“Following extensive internal investigations and measurement checks, it is now clear that almost all of these model variants do correspond to the CO2 figures originally determined,” Volkswagen said.<br />They can be sold without limitations, it said.
