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Originally Posted by bwilson4web
Not a very good translation, here is their source:
Bob Wilson
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Actually a quite hilarious translation:
"PSA Peugeot Citroen altered in-depth its project of diesel hybrid car, to make it élitiste. The manufacturer even claqué the door of ex-Arranges Industrial Innovation"
"the next hybrid vehicles diesel will not be any more the "diesels of Mr. All-the-World"
"the play is from now on large open between this solution or the lithium-ion"
"PSA Peugeot Citroen thus preferred to throw sponge to continue to develop only a vehicle"
Funny translations aside, what one can gather from this article was that Peugeot was expecting a substantial French government subsidy. When the the European Union regulators got a wind of this, they immediately objected, (most likely because the automakers from other EU countries complained of an unfair competitive advantage) and threatened to investigate.
Peugeot, faced with litigation from the Brussels bureaucreats , decided to "throw the sponge" on a mass marketed diesel-hybrid, and focus instead on a luxury D-H car.