Bojan Vrbnjak
Where will the path lead? VW in the next few years? In an interview for the website Automotive Week, is the head of VW Thomas Schäfer spoke about the future of the brand from Wolfsburg. The conversation inevitably revolved around electric vehicles and thus also the beginning of the end of cars with internal combustion engines. It is for this purpose shepherd revealed that the market launch of new vehicles with internal combustion engines is almost complete.
Volkswagen wants to launch the next generation this year Passat (wagon only) and Tiguan. It will follow in 2024 Tyrone (a compact SUV for China), and in 2025 a facelifted version will be available T-Roc. In words Schäfer they will be last vehicles with next-generation internal combustion engines, which will then be available by 2030.”The T-Roc is the latest new combustion engine model in Europe on the horizon. Of course, other models will get major upgrades. But then completely new vehicles are no longer planned, at least not yet.And what about Golf? They will accomplish a lot in 2024 upgrade, that the eighth-generation model will remain fresh and competitive until the end of the decade. Ninth edition with fossil fuel engines is not planned, although management VW-ja doesn't completely rule it out. "If the world develops completely differently from expectations by 2026 or 2027, then we can also bring completely new vehicles to the market. However, I don't believe that. This is not planned for now."
It is in second place shepherd signaled the end On, as it will be due to the upcoming emission standard EURO 7 a small car with a hybrid drive became too expensive. He said it would end up costing the same as ID.2all from 2025: “We have to ask ourselves if it even makes sense to sell a small car with an internal combustion engine.” At the same time, he added that he was supposed to be a model e Up phased out by mid-2024. Then it should come in years 2026 small an electric SUV and could bear the name ID. Tiguan. The company intends to maintain iconic names, so tag yourself Golf ali tuguan they will not retire after the end of the fossil fuel engine era. shepherd he said that the electric golf will not be manufactured on the platform MEB/MEB+, is said to be built on the upcoming platform SSP. So after 2028.
Volkswagen intends to since the year 2033, i.e. two years before the start of the ban on the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines in the European Community, in Europe sell only more electric cars.
