Porsche's Idea for a Six-Stroke Internal Combustion Engine Looks Brilliant

Re:Porsche's Idea for a Six-Stroke Internal Combustion Engin... by abenga on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:34AM (#41608752)

> What constitutes “walking back”?

Legally+Economically. After seeing how badly their cars were doing against Chinese EVs, it seems the EV-only mandates in the EU and US are on shaky ground; only heavy tariffs on imported cars seem to be giving local producers a chance. I do not think they will figure it out by the 2030-ish targets, and bet that European and American companies will be allowed to sell combustion engine cars after that.

> marking a 16.3% increase compared to the same period last year

This is buoyed a lot by growth in China (which is not nothing, I guess), but growth in Europe and the Americas is slowing.

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Re:Porsche's Idea for a Six-Stroke Internal Combustion Engin... by rsynnott on Saturday September 21, 2024 @08:13AM (#41609466)

The EU and California targets are 2035; not aware of any large market going for a full ban earlier than that?

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Re:Porsche's Idea for a Six-Stroke Internal Combustion Engin... by abenga on Saturday September 21, 2024 @08:36AM (#41609579)

Even 2035 is not happening. Politically, parties that are not enthusiastic about climate change mitigation are gaining ground in Europe. A lot of western car companies are scaling back their ev targets, and announcing more ICE car research (like this article we are discussing). Those bans will keep getting postponed/cancelled the closer they come.

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