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epa05010284 A banner reading 'We need transparency, openness, energy, and courage. Above all we need: you' hangs on the power plant of the VW factory next to the VW logo in Wolfsburg, Germany, 04 November 2015. German carmaker Volkswagen saw its shares lose more than 9 per cent of their value in early trading Wednesday as investors reacted to the latest news in the company's emissions cheating scandal. Volkswagen revealed a day earlier that emissions irregularities have been found in an additional 800,000 Volkswagen cars, representing an economic risk to Europe's biggest carmaker of about 2 billion euros (2.2 billion dollars). The scandal, which broke in September, had already affected 11 million cars with diesel engines that were installed with software that allowed cars to falsely report lower emissions of nitrogen oxide in an effort to sidestep environmental regulations. EPA/PETER STEFFEN