{"id":126351,"date":"2018-05-18T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=126351"},"modified":"2018-05-18T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:26:21","slug":"volvo-cutting-diesel-engines-from-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2018\/05\/volvo-cutting-diesel-engines-from-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo Cutting Diesel Engines from Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Volvo S60 will be the first sedan from the automaker that is offered without a diesel powerplant as an option.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Volvo Cars is implementing plans to stop offering diesel engines in its future vehicles.<\/p>\n

The company announced this week the new Volvo S60 sedan \u2013 to be launched later this spring \u2013 will be the first Volvo to be produced without a diesel engine. The decision to eliminate a diesel engine on a model that will be sold worldwide highlights Volvo Cars\u2019 “commitment to a long-term future beyond the traditional combustion engine,” the company said.<\/p>\n

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Product News!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOur future is electric and we will no longer develop a new generation of diesel engines,\u201d said H\u00e5kan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will phase out cars with only an internal combustion engine, with petrol hybrid versions as a transitional option as we move towards full electrification. The new S60 represents the next step in that commitment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

(Volvo aims for half of sales to be EV by 2025. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The S60 Cross Country is "new territory" for Volvo, much like when the V70 was introduced several years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last month, Volvo Cars reinforced its electrification strategy, by stating that it aims for fully electric cars to make up 50% of its global sales by 2025. The announcement was made at the 2018 Beijing Auto Show, positioning it as a powerful player in China, the world\u2019s leading market for electrified cars.<\/p>\n

Other manufacturers are also backing away from using diesel engines in passenger. Toyota and Nissan are planning to end the sales of diesel-powered automobiles in Europe.<\/p>\n

All new Volvo models launched from 2019 will be available as either a mild petrol hybrid, plug-in petrol hybrid or battery electric vehicle. This is the most comprehensive electrification strategy in the car industry and Volvo Cars was the first traditional car maker to commit to all-out electrification in July 2017.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for details about Volvo\u2019s hitting Sweden\u2019s streets with an all-new electric truck.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The new S60, a premium midsize sports sedan, is based on Volvo\u2019s in-house developed Scalable Product Architecture, which also underpins the company\u2019s award-winning new 90 Series and 60 Series cars. The S60\u2019s estate sibling, the V60, was launched earlier this year in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

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The Polestar versions of the V60 and S60 reflect Volvo's commitment to battery-electrics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new S60 will initially be available with a range of four-cylinder Drive-E gasoline engines as well as with two gasoline plug-in hybrid versions. Mild hybrid versions will follow next year.<\/p>\n

(Volvo XC60 lands honors as World Car of the Year.\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Production of the new S60 will start this fall at Volvo Cars\u2019 new manufacturing facility outside Charleston, South Carolina. The Charleston plant will be the only manufacturing\u00a0location for the new S60, meaning American-built S60s will be sold in the U.S.market as well as overseas through exports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volvo Cars is now implementing its plans to dump diesel engines from its line-up starting with the new S60 sedan coming later this spring. This will be the first car offered without a diesel powerplant option. For details, go to TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":87254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[114],"post-state":[],"category_old":[286,150,151,287,153,319,289,155,163,132,290,291,288,235],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126351"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=126351"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=126351"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=126351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}