Like VW, Ford is ditching diesel on its B-segment cars
- We recently saw in one of our Auto-Analyses that carmakers were in the process of switching their A-segment cars from thermal engines to electric engines, diesel engines having disappeared for several years on this type of model.
- More recently, the Volkswagen Group announced that it was phasing out diesel engines from its B-segment cars, primarily the Volkswagen Polo.
- Other carmakers had already done the same, such as Toyota with its Yaris, Nissan with its Micra and Juke, Skoda with its Fabia, Honda with its Jazz, Hyundai with its i20 or Mazda with its Mazda 2.
- It is the turn now of Ford to announce the end of production of its Fiesta diesel version. This version represented only a marginal share of all Ford Fiesta sales. The problem is that this model does not yet exist in an electric version. The only alternative remains the gasoline engine, as for the Volkswagen Polo by the way.
- The electrification of the Polo will go through the ID2 which will be a battery electric vehicles (BEV) but for Ford nothing is scheduled yet, because all future electric cars from Ford Europe will be based on Volkswagen engines and platforms and today the principle agreement between the two carmakers did not generate a new range of BEVs for Ford.
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