There is no supplier to help the exhaust emissions of the whole vehicle company.

In the past two years or so, the Volkswagen Emissions Gate has ignited a lot of rumors. The original target was only aimed at Volkswagen. With the deepening of the excavation, Bosch was also involved. Recently, Volkswagen was exposed by scandals using monkeys as an exhaust gas test. The door still has no sign of stopping.

In China, in the opening year of 2018, Shandong Kama and Tang Jun were fined more than RMB 38.77 million due to frauds, which surprised the auto sector. This is the first penalty bill issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection to automakers after the newly revised Air Pollution Prevention Act was implemented. It is also the largest fine in recent years.

Exhaust is not uncommon

In this incident, an industry insider, Li Ming (a pseudonym), told the China Automotive News that engine emissions and tail gas aftertreatment technologies are relatively high in gold content. Small companies cannot produce their own engines, and post-processing technologies rely on external suppliers. Therefore, If there is no external supplier to help, the vehicle exhaust emissions can not create a fake.

Before Shandong Kaima and Tang Jun were punished, many large-scale off-gas fraud incidents were reported. For example, CCTV Finance once revealed that there is no truck in the Hebei market that truly meets the national IV emission standard. "Second country" vehicles are rampant. "China Automotive News" reporter once investigated in Nanjing, Beijing and other places also found a number of false detections of tail gas emissions.

New atmosphere law clearly defines responsibility

Why is the falsification of motor vehicle exhaust emissions repeated?

Li Ming told the "China Automotive News" reporter that the division of responsibilities in the previous Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law is not clear.

The 2000 version of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Act did not explicitly authorize which department punished the offending fraud. Therefore, for the phenomenon of counterfeiting of exhaust gas in the market, the environmental protection department had only adopted the method of interviewing before, and the lack of interviews with punishment could not produce enough deterrent effect. In addition, although the 2000 version of the atmospheric law has specific penalties, the penalties for unlawful gains of up to one or more fines are relatively light.

In 2015, the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law was amended to first clarify the responsibilities of the competent department of environmental protection. The penalties for violations of the law have also been markedly increased. Fines ranging from one to three times the value of the goods have been stipulated and fines have been ordered to stop production. Model.

Punishment

Li Ming told the "China Automotive News" reporter that the old version of "illegal income" and the new version of the "value of goods" are different, and their meanings are also very different.

He further explained that if illegal vehicles are not sold, they cannot be punished as “illegal income”. The newly revised atmospheric control law punishes according to the value of goods, so whether the offending vehicle is sold or not, it can be used as a basis for punishment. This change has increased penalties for illegal companies and has a considerable deterrent effect.

According to another understanding, the environmental protection department has actually mastered the problems of exhausted emissions from Shandong Kaima and Tang Jun, but it was difficult to punish. After the newly revised Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law was formally implemented, the environmental protection department had a basis for punishment. Judging from the amount of punishment, the environmental protection department basically punished according to the top of the value of goods.

An auto company official told the “China Automotive News” reporter that the two companies were fined 38.77 million yuan, which is the largest amount of punishment in recent years, indicating that the management of motor vehicle exhaust gas fraud is true, and auto companies can no longer be lucky.

Active fraud and passive falsification

Among the automotive companies, Shandong Kaima and Tang Jun are not large in scale and their technical strength is not strong. Their engines and post-processing technologies must rely on external suppliers. As Li Ming said, if there is no participation of external suppliers, it is difficult for Shandong Kaima and Tang Jun to falsify alone. An industry source said that at present, China's auto production consistency requirements only for vehicle companies, in the future should also strengthen the supervision of suppliers.

How does an external supplier participate in the fraud of an entire vehicle company?

The reporter contacted a company that produced a post-processing system through various channels. Zhang Yong (a pseudonym), the person in charge of the company, told the “China Automotive News” reporter that external suppliers involved in the tailgear falsification of vehicle companies needed to be treated differently, and some were active. Some are passive.

After dealing with system suppliers as an example, Zhang Yong explained the difference between active fraud and passive fraud.

In order to reduce costs, some vehicle companies purchase engines from small companies that may emit excessive amounts of pollutants, such as posing as a National IV in the country or posing as a national IV in the country. Exhaust emissions from these engines that are procured by vehicle companies can overwhelm the post-processing system. Even if the post-treatment system is a qualified product, it will produce exhaust gas that meets the standards. "In this case, the post-processing system company has no responsibility." Zhang Yong said.

The second situation is that some vehicle manufacturers’ inspection models are produced strictly in accordance with the requirements. The mass production models have been reduced by stealing materials. External suppliers such as engines and post-processing must provide different supporting products in accordance with the requirements of vehicle manufacturers. . Zhang Yong said: "This situation is a passive participation in fraud."

In the third case, in order to enhance the competitiveness of the market, vehicle manufacturers require suppliers to reduce supply prices each year. However, almost all production factors are increasing. In particular, the post-processing system requires the use of precious metals, and the price of precious metals is always With the rising trend, there is little room for price cuts for post-processing supporting companies. In the face of the requirements of vehicle manufacturers, some post-processing enterprises have to reduce the use of precious metals, which is a proactive fraud.

“Some post-processing companies still want to maintain the matching relationship and have taken the initiative to create counterfeit methods. It is hard to find that the use of precious metals has been reduced slightly after reprocessing. Many companies’ procurement personnel also know, but one eye closed their eyes. Zhang Yong said.

Strengthening supplier supervision

Based on the above situation, Zhang Yong believes that if the engine or the post-processing supporting enterprise does not participate in counterfeiting, it will be difficult for the entire vehicle company to realize fraud even if it wants to.

At present, China's motor vehicle environmental penalties are only targeted at vehicle companies. The new atmospheric law does not clearly stipulate that penalties for engines or reprocessing companies that participate in frauds should be punished. As long as the entire vehicle company has the incentive to falsify, external supporting companies are likely to actively or passively participate.

How to prevent suppliers from making fake?

Zhang Yong believes it is not difficult to eliminate this phenomenon. The engine or the post-processing system products have corresponding codes. To identify the vehicles with excessive emissions, we can identify the root causes of the problems according to the coding of the supporting components and products, so as to determine the supporting enterprises' participation in counterfeiting, and then proceed to the supporting enterprises participating in the counterfeiting. Punishment. In this way, the possibility of counterfeiting by the suppliers and owners of passive vehicles is greatly reduced.

Above, after the promulgation of the new Law on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution, it has been an indisputable fact that environmental protection supervision has been strengthened. In order to eliminate the phenomenon of fraud in off-gas production, it is necessary for the government supervisory authority to strengthen the management of external suppliers so that the entire vehicle company will not want to make counterfeits.