Sports car maker Porsche said Sunday it would become the first German auto giant to abandon the diesel engine, reacting to parent company Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal and urban driving bans.
“There won’t be any Porsche diesels in the future,” CEO Oliver Blume told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
Instead, the luxury sports car brand would concentrate on what he called its core strength, “powerful petrol, hybrid and, from 2019, purely electric vehicles”.
In this file photo taken on March 3, 2009 the new Porsche Cayenne diesel is displayed at the German luxury car maker during the first media day of the 79th Geneva Car Show in Geneva. / AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI
The Porsche chief conceded the step was a result of the three-year-old “dieselgate” scandal at auto giant…
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