Porsche is set to put its Mission E concept into production. And this new electric strategy may well prove the end of diesel-powered models from the automaker.
Porsche’s CEO has revealed that the sportscar-maker’s current generation of diesel engines may well be its last.
According to Automotive News, CEO Oliver Blume admitted that the brand was considering ditching diesel.
“Of course we are looking into this issue,” Blume told the publication, before emphasising that “we have not made a decision on it”.
He added that a verdict on diesel would be made by the end of the decade.
Along with the rest of the Volkswagen Group, Porsche is betting big on electric vehicles – a change in strategy seemingly sparked by the diesel emissions scandal – with its first all-electric vehicle (a production version of the Mission E concept) due in the next couple of years.
