Audi abandons combustion engine development

ICE’s have over a century of development behind them now. I’m not going to miss them, but I wonder if there’s a way to ‘archive’ this kind of specialist mechanical engineering knowledge. It may come in handy one day.<p>It’s depressing to read about engineers having to go to the Smithsonian to study the lunar lander to relearn some of the innovations and improvisations made at the time.

Abandons NEW combustion engine development. They’re still developing their existing combustion engine platforms further and aren’t giving up on ICE.

The plans for the Euro 7 standard are “technically a huge challenge with at the same time little benefit for the environment”. “This places extreme restrictions on the internal combustion engine,” Duesmann said.<p>If the Euro 7 standard has little benefit for the environment, it should be stricter, because the cities are full of toxic gases.

It&#x27;s worth mentioning that the Euro 7 standard has not yet been formalised, however the proposal is that it will require CO of less than 0.3g&#x2F;km (currently 1.0g&#x2F;km) and NOx of less than 0.03g&#x2F;km (currently 0.06g&#x2F;km).

Presumably coincidental, but the YouTube algorithm popped this video on Audi building their electric motors for me on Monday. Amazing how much automation is possible - humans almost merely augmenting the process. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Tp3rsjaUt58" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Tp3rsjaUt58</a>

A hundred years after EV&#x27;s become commonplace, our descendants will learn about ICE in history class.<p>They will be told that their great great grandparents&#x27; generation dug holes thousands of feet deep in the desert and under the sea to extract the liquid fossilised remains of plants that lived on Earth hundreds of megaannums prior. They took these liquid fossils, refined them in factories, transported them all over the surface of the earth, and poured them one gallon at a time into machines that squirted precise amounts of the precious liquid into metal cylinders where the liquid was set alight to explode thousands of times per minute, in precise amounts calculated to release power to a series of mechanical levers, pulleys, and spinning rods which did for 4 wheels what horses had done in the even more distant past.

I don’t like those developments. I’m living in Kazakhstan which is huge and cold in winter. People are poor and average car age is 20 years (plenty of cars with 30+ age). Everything is just opposed to electric cars use-cases. And of course we’re too small to be able to manufacture our own engines.

Audi is just one of the brands of Volkswagen group. I wonder if Audi will just get support from other groups.

Audi is a sub-brand of VW Group which owns 12 vehicle brands in total that share engines. I find it strange that an announcement like this would come from a sub-brand and not mention the other wider brands.

I wonder if we&#x27;ll ever see development in External Combustion Engines. They have the same instant torque as electric cars, and in their latest iterations were proven much more efficient than ICE.

Yeah, I was actually thinking of buying a corvette or other sports car. Because I figure it will be a collectible and worth more money than I pay for it down the line. As they stop making gas cars.

Audi 1.8T EA888 Gen 3 - RIP - what a lovely engine it was once all the niggly problems had been sorted.

No doubt they will still license and manufacture ICE tech.