Mercedes want to abandon combustion engines by 2039
German giant Mercedes-Benz said Monday it wants to stop selling traditional combustion engine cars by 2039 and plans for its new vehicles sold worldwide by that time to be carbon-neutral.
"We aim to have a carbon-neutral new passenger car fleet in 20 years," said Ola Kallenius, current head of Mercedes research, who is to succeed Dieter Zetsche as chairman of the Daimler group next week.
All Mercedes models will be electric or hybrids within two decades, a company spokesman said, but different approaches were possible.
"Our current focus is on battery-electric mobility. But there's also room and need to continue to work on other solutions, for example, the fuel cell or eFuels," Kallenius said in a statement.
"Today, no one knows for sure which drivetrain mix will best serve our customers' needs 20 years from now.
"That's why we encourage policy makers to pave the way for tech neutrality: Let's fix the target, but not the means to achieve it." Daimler says synthetic fuels produced with