It's already happened: Volvo has produced its last vehicle with a diesel engine

A few months ago, one of the most powerful car brands in Europe announced that it was ceasing production of diesel engines and would soon stop fitting them to its models. The brand in question was Volvo, and it has now announced that it has just installed its last engine of this type in one of its models.

The vehicle with this honour is a Volvo S60 Cross Country, which has rolled off the production line at the company’s plant in Ghent, where this model is manufactured. With this vehicle, one chapter closes and shows the path that Volvo began a few years ago. The commitment to electric vehicles has driven Volvo’s strategy and has made the difference over the last few years.

These final vehicles fitted with diesel engines fulfil the company’s commitments to customers who chose this powertrain, but no more will leave the Volvo assembly lines with these engines. However, this is not the only move this brand has made regarding internal combustion engines.

Another of Volvo’s commitments in this regard is not to invest any more money in improving petrol engines. This means that petrol engines are also doomed to disappear, because no further investment will be made in them. For that reason, the current generation of engines will be maintained, and when it reaches the end of its commercial life, they will disappear in favour of electric motors.

Volvo has been the only European brand to support without conditions the European Union’s proposal to ban the sale of cars with combustion engines in Europe. The rest, to a greater or lesser extent, have opposed it and pointed out some points of disagreement with that proposal. For now, Volvo is taking a giant step forward and is ruling out diesel versions of all its models, moving ever closer to fully electric mobility.

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