Porsche first German carmaker to abandon diesel engines
September 23, 2018 by Frank Zeller
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".
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