To help ease away from these problems, Porsche CEO Oliver Blume has officially announced the company's decision to no longer support diesel engines. The announcement was made in an interview with Germany's Bild am Sonntag published Saturday.
“There won’t be any more diesel cars from Porsche in the future,”
There had been rumors of this decision since February, though nothing could be confirmed.
Currently, Porsche still offers a few diesel vehicles, such as Macan and Panamera variations in certain markets. They only started offering diesel vehicles in 2009, making them one of the younger diesel options on the market. The option certainly isn't a popular one with the automaker, accounting for only 15 percent of sales.
The emissions situation wasn't the only motivation for this shift, either. Blume remarked on how a number of U.S. states are pushing legislation that will ban the use of diesel vehicles, and how some are even pushing for mandatory electrification.
This change doesn't surprise us, though our sympathies go out to those that prefer diesel.
