It’s most likely that all the ‘Dieselgate’ scandals, recently brought back into the light thanks to the recent ‘<a href="http://www.carshop.co.za/dieselgate-latest-emissions-scandal-rocks-vw/">gas monkey</a>’ claims, have been a contributing factor to Stuttgart’s favourite sportscar maker’s latest decision. The plan is to cull all the diesel engines from their line-up, all of them, in the wake of an electrical onslaught. We’re talking an army of EV and plug-in hybrids set to be integrated and now it seems to plug the hole that will be left once the 3.0-litre turbodiesel so famously applied to the Macan and Cayenne SUVs as well as the Panamera. But then, this is the company that just recently culled the legendary flat-six petrol in the 718 range (Cayman and Boxster) in favour of a boosted 4-cyl. Then again, you might argue that as a sportscar maker, diesel engines had no right living in the Porsche range to begin with. Mind you we absolutely loved the VAG-sourced V8 turbodiesel in the Panamera, losing it is a shame.
So where do we go from here?
Well Porsche is still a big believer in the flat petrol burners (in both 4 and 6 cylinder formats) that powers their 911s, the 718 cars and of course their SUV range. But then there’s the Mission E looming, for which the future looks incredible, especially after a $7.4 billion investment in EV and mobility services. The Mission E is a fully electric sporstscar and will serve as the Stuttgart firm’s flagship EV for this next exciting chapter. This isn’t Porsche’s first big venture into speed by way of elctrification of course - their 918 Spyder hybrid supercar has that distinction, with a 919 Hybrid racecar already proving itself at the 2014 LeMans. It seems Porsche’s future then is confidently electric.
