Porsche Says It Will Beat Next Deadlines For EU Emissions Rules
Posted 5th March, 2007 in Porsche | Leave a comment
Porsche AG, has announced that it plans to beat the European Union’s next two sets of emissions standards by as much as six years.
The manufacturer plans to achieve both the Euro 5 and Euro 6 standards by next year. Porsche also stated that it is developing flexible-fuel vehicles that can run on a gasoline mixture that includes as much as 85 percent ethanol.
Euro 5 standards, aimed at reducing cars’ and vans’ nitrogen-oxide and particle emissions, take effect in September 2009 and the Euro 6 rules, which further tighten diesel models’ nitrogen-oxide emissions, will come into effect in January 2014.
Porsche has previously said that it would be working with Volkswagen to develop a hybrid gasoline-electric powered version of the Cayenne SUV.
The hybrid Cayenne should be production-ready this decade.
[Source: Bloomberg]
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