Volkswagen model has no plans to develop new combustion engines, CEO Ralf Brandstaetter stated, because the automaker shifts its focus to battery-powered automobiles,

“In the meanwhile, I do not anticipate a very new engine household to be launched once more,” Brandstaetter told Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive Information Europe.

VW will additional develop the engines at the moment in use and put together them for brand spanking new emissions requirements akin to Euro 7. “We nonetheless want them for a sure time, they usually should be as environment friendly as attainable,” he stated.

VW will want the cash it earns from promoting autos with combustion engines to finance its electrical push, Brandstaetter stated.

Beneath its ‘Accelerate’ strategy, introduced on March 5, the model expects full-electric autos to account for greater than 70 p.c of its European car gross sales by 2030, in contrast with a earlier goal of 35 p.c. Within the U.S. and China, the model is focusing on a market share of greater than 50 p.c for full-electric autos by 2030.

Audi CEO Markus Duesmann stated earlier this month that the model is not going to develop new combustion engines however will adapt present inside combustion engines to new emissions pointers, together with for the upcoming for the brand new generations of its best-selling automobiles, the A4 and A6 sedans, and Q5 SUV.

“The following technology of those three mannequin sequence will certainly nonetheless have inside combustion engines, together with many plug-in and delicate hybrids,” Duesmann told Automobilwoche.

Duesmann gave no timeline for when the automaker will cease producing combustion engines. “Our prospects will in all probability resolve when the final combustion engine comes off the manufacturing line,” he stated.

Beforehand, the Volkswagen Group deliberate to introduce its final combustion engine platform in 2026, with a lifecycle that might finish in 2040. It isn’t clear whether or not that timing shall be modified.

VW and Audi are Volkswagen Group’s most essential engine producers in VW Group, supplying sister manufacturers Skoda and Seat.