TOKYO: The Volkswagen diesel emissions test rigging scandal could accelerate a shift towards gasoline-electric hybrid cars and plug-in electric hybrids – even as cheaper gasoline, for now, saps demand for green cars.
The fallout from VW – where the cost of the scandal pushed the German automaker to a first quarterly loss in at least 15 years – is rippling through an industry already embracing alternative 'greener' propulsion systems to traditional gasoline and diesel.
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