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The future is electric: Audi stops development of new combustion engines – The Driven
VW subsidiary Audi abandons development of new combustion engines and admits future is electric, although it doesn’t sound particularly happy about it.
VW subsidiary Audi has abandoned the development of new combustion engines.
“We will no longer develop a new combustion engine, but will adapt our existing combustion engines to new emission rules,” CEO Markus Duesmann told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in response to EU plans for stricter Euro 7 standards, which he called “technically a huge challenge with little benefit for the environment.”
But Duesmann refused to name a phase-out date for Audi sales of conventional engines. “More than 90 per…
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