The $1.675 Billion Secret Inside Ram Diesel Trucks

A Ram heavy-duty pickup sits on steel rollers in a government lab and passes its emissions test. According to the U.S. government, once the same truck was out on the road, its engine software did something else. The engine was a 6.7-litre Cummins diesel, and Cummins wrote the software and certified it with the EPA. Regulators say more than 630,000 Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks from 2013 to 2019 had software defeat devices. The result was the biggest civil penalty in the history of the Clean Air Act: $1.675 billion. And it turns out Cummins had been here before, in 1998. Told with the real court filings, EPA records and Cummins' own press releases. Hidden secrets behind the world's biggest companies: the Info404 files. Subscribe for the next one. #Cummins #Ram #Dieselgate #CarSecrets #Documentary