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Diesel's death is overstated, says Horiba

Automobiles with internal combustion engines will continue to have a place in emerging markets

A driver waits in a taxi for his turn to fill up his tank with diesel at a fuel station in Kolkata. Photo: Reuters
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A driver waits in a taxi for his turn to fill up his tank with diesel at a fuel station in Kolkata. Photo: Reuters

Kevin Buckland & Masatsugu Horie | Bloomberg
What is the market leader in equipment for measuring automobile emissions to do if the vehicles of the future don’t spew exhaust? Japan’s Horiba, whose gear was central in exposing Volkswagen’s (VW’s) diesel-cheating scandal, believes that day will never come.

Electric vehicles (EVs) won’t ever make up more than a third of autos worldwide, says Chief Executive Officer Atsushi Horiba, because it’s just not feasible to build the scale of infrastructure to enable battery-powered cars. Who, for example, would set up a charging station in the middle of the Arizona desert, he said in a recent interview in Tokyo. Automobiles with

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