Audi to get rid of combustion engines in 10-15 years

Volkswagen’s premium automaker Audi aims to get rid of combustion engines and offer only electric cars in 10 to 15 years, at the latest, German weekly WirtschaftsWoche reported.

The automaker is currently working on a concrete time plan and expects to have target dates in the near future for the phase-out at individual plants, it said.

It mentioned Audi Chief Executive Markus Duesmann as saying in an interview that “protection of the environment and economic success go together well”.

In 2017, Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler had said “In future, electric vehicles will roll off the line in all of our plants”.