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Porsche Is Pivoting Back to Combustion. It Will Cost Them Dearly (www.motor1.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

kinda weird they are choosing this path.
I'd understand a focus hybrids but it must be a lucrative demogrpahic or ...something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think it has something to do with the government’s waffling position on EV technology. I don’t recall the details, but it made for uncertainty in the industry. The parent company (VAG) has also struggled with their software. I am fuzzy on the specifics. It is late for me.

Sad to see in any case. I’ve been a fan for a while and am encouraged with the Taycan. These ICE engines are getting so complicated that repairs are not for the faint of heart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe they are putting in an ICE engine, just for the sound. 😜

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I guess that might be the end of Porsche then. I guess there'll still be a niche market for combustion engine cars for the next few decades. But I think it will shrink quickly and especially in case of Porsche there are loads of well-maintained used cars and oldtimers that completely fill that gap.

[+] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

With all the justified criticism against VW, saying that they're "probably" funding the AfD is just taking it too far.

Here is an article from a political left newspaper, which describes that even though the AfD defended VW against the "Dieselgate", the company was not willing to supply them cars with a discount (which wouldn't be uncommon normally), because the AfD with its "nationalistic traits" stands in contrast to the fundamental values of the Volkswagen Group.

I understand the irony obviously, but we live in the present and not the past.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That comment doesn't make the least bit of sense.
The company that currently beat everyone else thoroughly on EV in Europe is mismanaged, and didn't do enough development on EV?
In Denmark and Germany VW group has 7 of the 10 most sold EV models! and they have 3.5 times the marketshare on EV of Tesla in January.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

they have that now, but they had a head start on EVs and then threw it all away to return to combustion, only to now pivot back.

problem is the liberal party in germany, that does everything possible to stop EVs (even more than the conservative CDU, but less than the AfD) and this party had the secretary of transport, what a coincidence. they tried theit best to redirect investment from trains to roads and car makers unwilling to produce EVs that a normal german can buy.