Audi might now not launch its remaining ice cream automobile in 2026 as initially deliberate and shall be used this yr to find out a brand new timeline for phasing out ice cream vehicles.

Audi introduced earlier that it could launch its remaining ice automobile in 2026-after expectation, the following era of Q7 and it could take away it from the sale in 2032, however totally different speeds of EV adoption in necessary world markets meant that the corporate may hold gasoline and diesel forces in its vary as deliberate.

Gernot Döllner, CEO of the CEO of the corporate’s annual outcomes, set out the continuing curiosity of ICES and emphasised Audi’s substantial funding in new era of hybrid know-how.

“For all world areas, we’re going to take a look at the lifetime of combustion engines,” he stated. “2032 was the date we communicated, however we should rethink the dates and deadlines.”

Döllner defined that the transition to EV drops was going to be “longer than we initially deliberate”, Döllner stated that ICES will proceed to play an necessary position within the medium time period – particularly as the premise for hybrid energy trains.

The brand new Audi A5 plug-in hybrid shall be unveiled subsequent week as one of many ten new PHEV fashions dealing with in 2025, with the A3, A6, Q5 and the following era Q3, additionally on account of Phev variants within the coming months.

The brand new Q7 and a bigger, primarily US-focused mannequin, referred to as the Q9, will even be provided with Phev Energy when launched within the coming years.

The newest Audi ice cream vehicles are anticipated to stay on the market for the final time on the finish of the last decade, Döllner stated, and the corporate is keen to broaden their life cycles additional if the demand is there and laws permits.

“On stability, an extension of combustion engines can have a optimistic influence on our enterprise mannequin,” he stated.

In 2024, EVS was lower than 10% of Audi gross sales worldwide, and the agency stays dedicated to sustaining a ‘versatile supply of drives’ to keep away from the market share to opponents.

Döllner stated diesel engines stay an necessary supply in that context, however that the agency “is not going to make investments a lot in new diesel generations”.

The agency’s present TDI models meet the EUs Euro 7 EMISSIONS Laws and can stay out there to order “so long as we are able to produce and produce these engines in the marketplace”.