Volvo Group North America, LLC Settlement
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Volvo Group North America, LLC Settles For $196.5 Million
In May 2026, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) reached a settlement with Volvo Group North America, LLC (Volvo) for alleged violations of California’s heavy-duty engine regulation. CARB alleged that Volvo, a vehicle and engine manufacturer based in Sweden, used inadequately disclosed auxiliary emission control devices (AECDs) in over 10,000 of its model year 2010 through 2016, heavy-duty engines in California. These AECDs altered the engines’ emissions control systems and resulted in oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions in excess of regulatory limits. Failure to adequately disclose these AECDs to CARB and obtain approval for them prior to use is considered a violation of the test procedures incorporated in the California Code of Regulations, title 13, section 1956.8.
Volvo cooperated with CARB’s investigation, agreed to implement a recall to fix the subject AECDs in most of its model year 2014 through 2016 engines, and to pay $196.5 million to settle the alleged violations. Of this total amount, $17.5 million will be paid to CARB, of which $12.5 million is for civil penalties, and $5 million is for CARB’s costs associated with this case. The remaining $179 million will be used for the mitigation of excess NOx in California - $71 million directly from the company to fund CARB’s NOx reduction programs, and the other $108 million toward emission reduction projects in California.