VW eyes phase-out of combustion engines, but says it will sell conventional cars into 2040s
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VW has said it will sell combustion engines until the early 2040s, toning down media reports that it will phase out the technology around 2040. 鈥淲e will sell combustion-engine cars until the early 2040s,鈥� VW spokesperson Christoph Adomat told 威力彩玩法. 鈥淏ut we stand by the Paris Climate Agreement, which implies that VW鈥檚 fleet will have to travel CO2-neutral by 2050,鈥� Adomat added.
The company鈥檚 chief strategist Michael Jost had signalled at a conference earlier this week that VW eyes a phase-out of conventional car production. Jost said VW will start to roll out its next-generation gasoline and diesel cars beginning in 2026, according to a report by Christoph Rauwald and Oliver Sachgau for Bloomberg. Jost said the company was working 鈥渙n the last platform for vehicles that aren鈥檛 CO2-neutral [鈥 We鈥檙e gradually fading out combustion engines to the absolute minimum.鈥�
On the basis of Jost鈥檚 comments, German business daily Handelsblatt had written that VW 鈥渁nnounced the end of the combustion engine鈥� and that it would 鈥渟ell the last car with a combustion engine around the year 2040.鈥�
Read the Bloomberg report in English .
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Find background in the factsheet Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility.
