Why Volvo Cars is abandoning all diesel engines from spring 2024: CAR magazine UK looks at the reasons behind the news
In news that’ll surprise nobody, Volvo Cars has announced it’ll kill off all diesel engines early next year – focusing instead on pureand hybrid petrol models. The Swedish car maker made the announcement at Climate Week NYC in the US.
‘Electric powertrains are our future, and superior to combustion engines: they generate less noise, less vibration, less servicing costs for our customers and zero tailpipe emissions,’ said Volvo CEO Jim Rowan. ‘We’re fully focused on creating a broad portfolio of premium, fully electric cars that deliver on everything our customers expect from a Volvo – and are a key part of our response to climate change.
Volvo will stop building diesel engines in early 2024 and the manufacturer confirmed it is no longer investing in combustion engines at all. ‘We’re no longer spending a single krona of our R&D budget on developing new internal combustion engines,’ it revealed in a statement.As recently as 2019, diesel engines made up the majority of Volvo production globally, the company admitted.
It is far from the first manufacturer to abandon diesel engines; brands like Porsche committed to dropping derv as long ago as 2018, in the wake of theVolvo has now thrown its industrial might behind fully electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrains. Witness new EVs such as the upcoming
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