Nissan to halt nearly all gasoline engine development in EV shift — autoblog.com

According to a report coming out of Japan, Nissan is putting a stop to almost all new gasoline engine development in its major markets. It's making one exception, the report says, and that's for pickup trucks sold in the U.S. The reason, the Nikkei reports, is that governments around the world are making it increasingly difficult to sell cars running solely on internal combustion engines. Emissions rules instituted in Europe, in an effort to phase out gasoline cars in favor of electric vehicles, are making the development of new petrol engines financially untenable for Nissan.

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