{"id":16331,"date":"2025-08-28T10:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/2025\/08\/28\/opel-puts-an-end-to-the-pure-electric-brand-path\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:46:24","slug":"opel-puts-an-end-to-the-pure-electric-brand-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/2025\/08\/28\/opel-puts-an-end-to-the-pure-electric-brand-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Opel puts an end to the &#8220;pure electric brand&#8221; path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is our controversial &#8220;all-electric&#8221; strategy really still up to date?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently: NO!!!<\/p>\n<p>Because even the &#8220;courageous&#8221; pioneer in electrification Opel is now rowing back on the subject of combustion engines, according to Bild and Kronen Zeitung!<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly stated in the Kronen Zeitung:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/3878682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The bold announcement that only electric cars would be sold in Europe from 2028 is history. Instead, &#8220;multi-energy&#8221; applies again &#8211; in other words, everything from classic combustion engines to hybrids and batteries will be available in parallel.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And further: &#8220;The clear e-strategy has become an as-well-as.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great that all combustion engines can then be operated with synthetic fuels such as eFuels and HVO with significantly reduced CO2 emissions. And it is precisely this sensible, market-oriented and technology-open path that we have been advocating for years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is our controversial &#8220;all-electric&#8221; strategy really still up to date? Apparently: NO!!! Because even the &#8220;courageous&#8221; pioneer in electrification Opel is now rowing back on the subject of combustion engines, according to Bild and Kronen Zeitung! This is clearly stated in the Kronen Zeitung: &#8220;The bold announcement that only electric cars would be sold in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-fuels-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}