Toyota wants to stop production of diesel engines [updated]

Posted on 11-11-2015 at 13:39 by mauritsh – 43 Comments”

And instead, you are all such a gerse Mirai buy.

Dieselgate has implications not only for VAG itself, that’s no wonder. Toyota pulls it all very, and after the VW-scandal decided to unplug the power cord from its diesel engines to pull. The same plug is then with power in the hydrogen cars of the brand squashed, because this is according to the Japanese (and BMW) in the future.

As we previously uitlichtten there are still some hooks and eyes to FCEV’s. Moreover, the infrastructure here in the Netherlands (to take just one example, but in dribs and drabs. It will still take some time before we with conviction, a winner can designate when it comes to the battle between EV’s with battery pack and hydrogen cars.

The fact that the uitstooteisen for zelfontbranders probably much more stringent, means that the development of these blocks will go up. There is Toyota not to wait, if we Welt must believe. It would also be the brand within a few decades, a virtually zero emissions range of models in the showroom, want to have, and so will fossil fuels, an increasingly less significant role to play.

Or hydrogen the future-proof alternative? Time will tell.

UPDATE: Toyota will not stop with the sale of diesel engines. This says a spokesperson of the carmaker opposite RTLZ. Also convert the Japanese much in hybrid – and waterstoftechniek, still meet the current gasoline and diesel engines a important function within the group, according to the spokesman.