If it were up to Volkswagen, we will all be waving off the last combustion engine in the 1940s. According to VW, that is also necessary, looking at the Paris climate agreement.
Despite the rapidly growing popularity of EVs, we are currently still at the beginning of the transition to electric driving. The vast majority of cars on European roads still have an exhaust and it will remain so for the time being. Ultimately, however, the goal is to emit 95 percent less greenhouse gases in the EU by 2050 than in 1990. That is stated in the Paris climate agreement, which was concluded last year. To achieve this, car emissions must be reduced by switching to electric propulsion, among other things.
Volkswagen indicates to Techzle, among others, that it therefore no longer wants to have a combustion engine in production by 2050. “That’s what we’re aiming for. That would mean bringing the latest generation of combustion engines to the market by 2040,” said the brand’s new CEO, Ralf Brandstätter. Until then, he says it is important to keep a close eye on combustion engines and not to focus all on EVs: “Until then, we will continue to invest in combustion engines to make them cleaner and more efficient,” said the German.