This final note on the way out: the actual costs of the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal.

The company said Wednesday it lost $1.8 billion last quarter, partly as a result of the billions its had to set aside to pay damages.

On Thursday, though, the first peer-reviewed study of the public health costs of the extra pollution was published in Environmental Research Letters. It says about 60 people have already died prematurely — that’s just in this country.

Number of affected cars here: 550,000.

In the U.K.: 1.2 million.