German car manufacturer Volkswagen said on Wednesday that the number of cars whose carbon emissions it had understated is far fewer than feared. Volkswagen said that only about 36,000 vehicles were affected, as against the 800,000 which it had quoted last month, reported Reuters.

Volkswagen said that fuel consumption data for current production vehicles wasn’t unlawfully changed. The company also said it no longer expected to have to set aside two billion euros (around Rs 146 billion) for a separate, gasoline-engine issue it disclosed last month, reported The Wall Street Journal.

The automotive giant has been shrouded in a pollution-related scandal that had initially centred on defeat devices, which is software fitted into diesel engines to tamper with the results of tests for nitrogen oxide emissions. The carmaker had confirmed that as many as 11 million diesel engines worldwide had been fitted with this rogue software, following which regulatory and criminal investigations were opened in a number of countries.