The German-based carmaker Porsche has said it will stop producing diesel-powered models and will focus on gasoline, electric and hybrid engines. The decision is directly linked to the so-called “dieselgate”, the scandal that involved several European manufacturers who had installed devices on their cars to mask the levels of harmful emissions of their engines.
Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said Porsche's image had been damaged as a result of the scandal, that diesel “will remain an important technology”, but that they “as manufacturers of sports cars, for which the diesel has always played a secondary role “they concluded that their future” is without diesel “.
