VW engineers broke laws to do what they were asked to do. Tesla engineers are just doing the best that they can and taking longer than marketing would like. If that's a moral equivalence, then I guess we're all VW engineers.

* having more ethics than <insert car manufacturer here>

As we now know, all of them are cheating.

(Also, "having more ethics" sounds really strange in my ears. "... being more ethical than those at <XY>"?).