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Volvo to end diesel car production by early 2024

www.reuters.com Volvo to end diesel car production by early 2024

Volvo Cars said on Tuesday that it will end production of any remaining diesel models by early 2024 as it heads towards becoming an all-electric carmaker.

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Nice one Volvo! Rishi should just have shut the fuck up on his EV back pedelling.

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- Rishi should just have shut the fuck up
  
  Yeah
  
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  Rishi fuck u
  
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I wonder if the 2024 diesel Volvos will become high-value collector’s items. There’ll always be that niche of hobbyists who refine their own biodiesel from waste oil.

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weren't those volvo diesels better in many ways? or have i got it backwards? yay for the fossil fuel industry in confusing me, so fuck you shell.
ahem, fuck you: BP.

does anyone even know the names of these shits in order to condemn them

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- @sorebuttfromsitting @alphacyberranger diesels are horrible for air quality. The natural enemy of asthmatics everywhere.
  
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  Yeah doesn’t help that half the diesels are trucks where their owners love rolling coal 🙄
  
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  there's a lot of energy out there about diesel motors ya ya, and I have a CDL to drive all that crap, also my cat yells with enough decibels to rival a cement mixer, not impressed
  
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- Better in what ways? I think they are a bit more efficient, but emit more particulates.
  
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  I believe that they emit less CO2 compared to gasoline powered cars, but a lot more nitrates, which are carcinogenic.
  
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  In Europe, diesel is usually cheaper and burns slower, so it saves money.
  
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  yeah, that was my question.
  
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That link goes to a tor-hostile site. Would someone please copy the text here so everyone can read it?

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- Volvo Cars (VOLCARb.ST) said on Tuesday that it will end production of any remaining diesel models by early 2024 as it heads towards becoming an all-electric carmaker.
  
  "In a few months from now, the last diesel-powered Volvo car will have been built, making Volvo Cars one of the first legacy car makers to take this step," the Swedish company said in a statement.
  
  Majority owned by China's Geely (0175.HK), Volvo has committed to going fully electric by 2030.
  
  While a majority of the cars Volvo sold in Europe were diesel as recently as 2019, in 2022 they made up just 8.9% of the Swedish carmaker's sales.
  
  In August 33% of Volvo's sales were fully-electric or hybrid models. The company did not break out how many of the remaining 67% combustion-engine models were diesel and how many ran on petrol.
  
  Sales of diesel models have declined rapidly in Europe since Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) emission-cheating scandal and carmakers have been gradually reducing the number of diesel models available in their model lineups. Advertisement · Scroll to continue
  
  Diesel vehicles comprised more than 50% of Europe's new car sales in 2015, but accounted for just over 14% of sales in July.
  
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- LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Volvo Cars (VOLCARb.ST) said on Tuesday that it will end production of any remaining diesel models by early 2024 as it heads towards becoming an all-electric carmaker.
  
  "In a few months from now, the last diesel-powered Volvo car will have been built, making Volvo Cars one of the first legacy car makers to take this step," the Swedish company said in a statement.
  
  Majority owned by China's Geely (0175.HK), Volvo has committed to going fully electric by 2030.
  
  While a majority of the cars Volvo sold in Europe were diesel as recently as 2019, in 2022 they made up just 8.9% of the Swedish carmaker's sales.
  
  In August 33% of Volvo's sales were fully-electric or hybrid models. The company did not break out how many of the remaining 67% combustion-engine models were diesel and how many ran on petrol.
  
  Sales of diesel models have declined rapidly in Europe since Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) emission-cheating scandal and carmakers have been gradually reducing the number of diesel models available in their model lineups.
  
  Diesel vehicles comprised more than 50% of Europe's new car sales in 2015, but accounted for just over 14% of sales in July
  
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This is the best summary I could come up with:

LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Volvo Cars (VOLCARb.ST) said on Tuesday that it will end production of any remaining diesel models by early 2024 as it heads towards becoming an all-electric carmaker.

Majority owned by China's Geely (0175.HK), Volvo has committed to going fully electric by 2030.

While a majority of the cars Volvo sold in Europe were diesel as recently as 2019, in 2022 they made up just 8.9% of the Swedish carmaker's sales.

In August 33% of Volvo's sales were fully-electric or hybrid models.

The company did not break out how many of the remaining 67% combustion-engine models were diesel and how many ran on petrol.

Sales of diesel models have declined rapidly in Europe since Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) emission-cheating scandal and carmakers have been gradually reducing the number of diesel models available in their model lineups.

The original article contains 197 words, the summary contains 138 words. Saved 30%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

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Are there any affordable diesel hybrid cars?

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