Audi will no longer develop thermal engines
The future being electric, the brand will be content to adapt the thermal blocks that already exist. The Euro 7 standard will already have the skin of the heat engine?We will know it once ...
07/08/2022
The future being electric, the brand will be content to adapt the thermal blocks that already exist to come to the coming standards.
Does the Euro 7 standard have the skin of the heat engine?We will know it once its rules have been set, during this year.But even before being defined, Euro 7 begins to have the skin of the development of new thermal blocks.
Markus Duesmann, boss of Audi, confirmed, in an interview given to the German media Automobil, that his brand was no longer going to start the design of thermal engines.An announcement fraught with consequences, since Markus Duesmann recalls that Audi manages the research and development of the Volkswagen group, and therefore all the brands of the VW galaxy should no longer see the arrival of petrol or diesel unpublished blocks.
The boss of the firm in the rings explains that this type of project can no longer be profitable in the face of increasingly severe standards, with European CO2 thresholds that keep lowering, and lead to a forced march towards electric.But it is not yet the end of TFSI or TDI, since the current blocks will be the subject of changes to comply with new standards ... as long as it is possible.
Unsurprisingly, investments will focus on electric models.In 2025, Audi will already have around twenty 100 % electric vehicles in its range!