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Bentley is delaying the timeline for its deliberate transition to an all-electric car lineup.
The luxurious automaker unveiled the change to its “Beyond100” initiative on Thursday, saying it’s going to maintain manufacturing plug-in hybrid electrical automobiles (PHEVs) till 2035.
That marks a five-year extension from the plan it initially detailed in 2020, when Bentley unveiled a purpose of transitioning to a lineup consisting of solely battery electrical automobiles (BEVs) by 2030.
The Bentley brand is seen in Tallinn, Estonia, on Aug. 2, 2022. (Photograph by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Below the brand new “Beyond100+” technique, Bentley mentioned it goals to launch a brand new PHEV or BEV mannequin “every year over the next decade” because it completes its transfer to change into all-electric in 2035.
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“Four years almost to the day that Bentley initially outlined its Beyond100 strategy, we adapt to today’s economic, market and legislative environment to initiate a major transformation phase for tomorrow,” Bentley CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser mentioned in a press release. “Beyond100+ becomes our guiding light as we extend our ambitions beyond 2030, while maintaining our aim of a decarbonised future, including offering only fully electric cars from 2035, and reinforcing our credentials as the British creator of extraordinary cars for over a century and beyond.”
Bentley will roll out its first fully-electric mannequin – the “Luxury Urban SUV” – in 2026. Will probably be constructed at its Crewe headquarters.
The Bentley brand is seen exterior Bentley Motors Ltd. headquarters manufacturing unit on November 7, 2020, in Crewe, Cheshire, England. (Nathan Stirk/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
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The automaker additionally mentioned that three of its fashions – the Continental GT coupe, Continental GT convertible and Flying Spur – have been “now exclusively offered with an Ultra Performance plug-in V8 hybrid powertrain.”
That occurred after Bentley stopped making its W12 engine over the summer season as a part of its then-Beyond100 technique. The automaker constructed greater than 100,000 W12s over the course of the engine’s lifetime.
The brand of British carmaker Bentley is displayed through the “Mondial de l’Auto” at Parc des Expositions on Oct. 15, 2024, in Paris, France. (Chesnot/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Bentley made its first foray into hybrid automobiles with the Bentayga Hybrid a number of years in the past.
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Over the primary six months of 2024, Bentley delivered practically 5,500 automobiles throughout its varied modules, the automaker reported in late July. It accomplished a complete of 13,560 deliveries in 2023.
