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Abandons NEW combustion engine development. They’re still developing their existing combustion engine platforms further and aren’t giving up on ICE.
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
Abandons NEW combustion engine development. They’re still developing their existing combustion engine platforms further and aren’t giving up on ICE.
- andrewstuart2 6y agoEven from the title alone, I thought that was pretty clear.
- endisneigh 6y agoReally? How?
- steve_adams_86 6y agoThe word development. They won’t be developing ICE technology any further. It seems unlikely to me that they’d stop producing ICEs altogether, but I can see why they’d focus on developing electric technologies instead.
- bootlooped 6y agoBut they're still iterating on current ICE engines, which you could call development. And in that case they're still developing ICE technology. It sounds like the only thing they're claiming is they will not come up with completely new designs.
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoThe old product will get big fixes and some minor performance improvements (basically maintenance mode), but all the real R&D is happening on the new product.
- yitchelle 6y agoR&D happens on every product. Sometimes only the D occurs without the R.
- andrewstuart2 6y agoYeah, this was exactly my train of thought. That and the fact that it'd be a different story/title if they had completely stopped producing ICE cars, not engine development. There are emissions targets they're still on the hook for.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoAnd an engine product line goes for 10-50yr, more if you don't count a substantial refresh as a "new" architecture.