Mercedes-Benz won’t be doing away with diesel engines anytime soon, according to a report by Autocar UK. Despite the recent emissions scandal, the chairman of Daimler AG, Dieter Zetsche said the diesel engine still has a future and it would be “stupid” if they are allowed to be phased out.
“As we are proving with our new family of diesel engines, these can be as clean as gasoline engines with an on-going built-in advantage of around 15% lower CO2 emissions,” he said.
“This continues to be a key issue even though at this moment in time everyone is talking about NOx. We are seeing a highly emotional, political and illogical kind of discussion, but when you look at the facts and the technological potential, it would be absolutely stupid to forego the potential that diesel provides,” he added.
Furthermore, demand for diesel engines does not appear to be affected by the Dieselgate issue, with Zetsche claiming that neither BMW nor Mercedes “has seen one basis point change in the take rate for diesel in Europe over the last year.”
Mercedes’ stand on diesel engines differs from other carmakers like Renault and Volvo, both of which are looking to stop offering oil burners in the future. Among the reasons cited include more demanding emission standards, as well as the increasing costs involved to develop engines that meet those standards.
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B10 diesel is stupid.
For big distances nothing beats the turbo diesel. It’s cheaper than a hybrid and it’s faster.
Volvo simply doesn’t want to spend the money to develop diesel engines, as their main market is traditionally in the US and not Europe. And Renault is a former gouvernment owned company where French government still owns a 19.73% share.
Agree. Non ICE/EV cars are soulless.
This comment does little to M’sian bcos it is insignificant to our car buying public. It is more significant in Europe bcos more than 50% cars sold in Euro are diesel powered.
Besides that, I fail to see what the Dieselgate got to do with Merc or other diesel producer as a whole ?!
Malaysian Government and MBM should encourage Diesel in Malaysia.
Mercedes talk big but they have dropped the E300 Bluetec hybrid. Cause it affected E200 and E250 sales completely.
So the crooks at MBM Malaysia, instead of getting new W213 in Hybrid Diesel and save Malaysians money, they decided to perah us more money.
You see, if they bring a W213 E300 Bluetec Hybrid or the E220D, they will have to sell it for RM330k cause they save so much in EEV incentives.
But the crooks in MBM rather sell their lowest end model E200 for RM400k
Work harder buddy. #8Kerja
To them, sales is sales, infact all the record sales were achieve with the roll out of hybrid models including the S-Class.
Tax money doesn’t go to them. They would just sell whatever that sells. Beside it gives them the edge over their competitor. I am sure the decision can be a technical one as well.
So your argument about wanting to sell E200 is not valid.