BMW is one of the few manufacturers that have not yet given a date for the end of the combustion engine. Instead, new diesel and gasoline engines are expected to power SUVs into the next decade.
The vast majority of manufacturers agree: the combustion engine is a discontinued model and will be history by 2035 at the latest – if the EU can agree on the ban. But as with the cast of Gaul in the Asterix comics, not all manufacturers agree. BMW, for example, is stepping out of line. Instead of a fixed phase-out date, there are even new engines for the time being.
A new generation of diesel and gasoline engines with four, six and eight cylinders is planned. Here, too, the large units are held differently from the competition, where downsizing is playing an increasingly important role. The new drive units are to be sold well into the next decade, as the Handelsblatt reports. These will probably also be installed in BMW's SUV series.
BMW sticks to the combustion engine: Electric is not enough for the Munich-based company
The reason for this is simple: The X5, X6 and X7 combustion SUVs are still selling like hotcakes and making the cash registers in Munich ring. Accordingly, BMW wants to build them for as long as possible. In addition, the company is still not really gaining a foothold in the important market in China with electric cars – just like the other German carmakers. 700,000 combustion engines are compared to just 44,000 electric vehicles.
BMW plans to continue with diesel and gasoline engines well into the next decade. © BMW
Together with the fuel cell, which Munich also does not want to give up yet, BMW would then have three different drives on offer and could thus achieve higher quantities than Mercedes and Audi. This is also expected to improve the capacity utilization of the plants. At least that's the plan.
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Higher quantities also allow the costs of new technologies to be better distributed. For example, technology packages that BMW is developing for the electric cars planned for 2025 based on the "Neue Klasse" platform are also to be installed in combustion engines.
The only question is whether the Munich-based company's plan will work, because the new Euro 7 emissions standard provides for even stricter regulations on the emission of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide or ammonia. "This is the death of many engine programs," a high-ranking car manager told Handelsblatt. Especially since China is often guided by European regulations.
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What is certain, however, is that BMW will no longer build combustion engines in Germany from 2024. The main plant in Munich is being converted to electric cars. The diesel and petrol units are therefore only built in Austria, Great Britain and China.