Despite EV Push, Stellantis Has a Flood of New Gas Engines Coming.
While it seems like every major global automaker has already mostly turned their attention to fully electrifying their vehicle lineups in the next decade or so, there’s little talk of the millions of gas-powered vehicles that will be sold in the interim. While some companies have declared they’re no longer developing new engines anymore, others haven’t left internal combustion engine development behind just yet. Mickly Bly, the global boss of propulsion systems for Stellantis, recently hinted at a future outline for plenty of new gas engines to be introduced in the next few years. Here’s what we can expect:
To be clear, Stellantis is fully onboard the EV hype train, along with most of everybody else. They’ve just left enough room in the budget, apparently, to sustain and even potentially improve their gas offerings while developing and introducing new EV lineups. The company’s stated goals for now are for sales to be fully electric in Europe by 2030, but just half here in the U.S. by that same time, leaving plenty of margin for gas and hybrid models (as long as automakers don’t face future pro-EV or anti-ICE regulation or interference of some sort in the meantime).