The internal combustion engine may not die in 2035. Not even in new cars, if you ask Porsche's finance director.
Porsche has just presented a new electric car: an electric Macan for the first time ever. But this does not mean that the internal combustion engine is on its way out.
In fact, Porsche believes that the deadline of 2035, which a majority in the EU decided on last year, can be moved.
The car brand's financial director Lutz Meschke recently told the press in connection with the world premiere of the new Macan in Singapore.
– Right now there are many discussions about the end of the internal combustion engine. I think that it (the ban, ed.) can be postponed, says Lutz Meschke to Automotive News .
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Earlier this month, German Automobilwoche wrote something similar. According to the media, no German believes that the EU will get the ban through 'on time'. So in 2035.
And earlier this week it emerged that the largest coalition of parties in the European Parliament is actually working on not just postponing the ban, but dropping it altogether. Read more about it here .
For the record, it should be mentioned that the ban on new fossil-fuel cars is not a total ban in its current form. Not even in 2035.
From that year, however, new fossil cars will only be permitted if they can run on synthetic fuels, which many cars can already do today.
The world's fourth largest car group, Stellantis, already said last year that 28 million of the cars the group's brands have already built can run on, for example, synthetic petrol without any problems.
