- Bentley’s pushed its timeline to go all electric back five years to 2035
- The automaker’s first EV will arrive in 2027 and be an SUV
- Bentley will keep PHEVs in its lineup until 2035, and BEVs will remain separate products
Bentley is once again reshuffling its electrification plans, but it still expects to have an all-electric lineup by 2035, the automaker announced Thursday.
In January 2022, Bentley announced plans to introduce five electric vehicles over five years starting in 2025, leading to an all-EV lineup by 2030. The launch of that first EV was later pushed back to 2026, a timeline that’s still in effect, Bentley CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser said in a media briefing, with a market launch in 2027 and prototypes currently undergoing testing.
That first all-electric model will be a “luxury urban SUV” that won’t replace any of Bentley’s existing…
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