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Porsche wants to stick to its electrification plans until the ban on combustion engines in the EU is postponed.
The electric Porsche Macan is one of them.
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Porsche believes that the end of combustion engines in the EU could be postponed.
A return of state subsidies for the purchase of electric cars is also possible.
Singapore/Stuttgart - A few months ago, the EU decided to ban the sale of new cars with gasoline or diesel engines from 2035.
But there are voices that consider this goal to be unrealistic.
Engine developer Fritz Indra says that the ban on combustion engines will be overturned by 2026 at the latest.
A survey has shown that a majority of Germans expect the planned ban on internal combustion engines in the EU to be postponed.
Porsche believes that the EU ban on combustion engines will be postponed: the reason is the persistently weak demand for electric cars
Porsche also believes that a postponement of the combustion engine ban is possible.
This emerges from an interview by Porsche CFO Lutz Meschke with the trade magazine
Automotive News Europe
.
“At the moment there is a lot of discussion about the end of the internal combustion engine.
I think it could be delayed,” said Meschke at the launch of the new Porsche Macan electric off-road vehicle in Singapore.
Meschke cited the falling demand for electric cars in Europe as the reason for the postponement.
This has led the EU authorities to consider maintaining or postponing the 2035 target date.
The CFO expects that if demand for electric cars continues to be weak, government funding could also revive.
For luxury car manufacturers like Porsche, the loss of subsidies is not a problem because wealthy buyers do not need them to buy electric cars.
Porsche believes in a postponement of the EU ban on combustion engines: Porsche wants to stick to the electric offensive
The EU already has a model for postponing the ban on combustion engines.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced last September that he would postpone the end of internal combustion engines in Great Britain by five years.
Instead of 2030, the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars will not come into force until 2035.
However, he cited the current high costs for families and small businesses as the reason.
Porsche itself currently wants to stick to its electric car plans.
In 2025, half of all new vehicles sold are expected to be electrified, i.e. drive purely electrically or be a plug-in hybrid.
By 2030, the proportion of all new vehicles with purely electric drives is expected to rise to over 80 percent.