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Originally Posted by Weather Man
Bentley was one of the first established automakers to commit to a fully electric future, telling the world in 2020 that it intended to built its last combustion engine in 2030. From that point onwards, the plan was for all Bentley models to be full EVs.
As suggested by the tense of that last sentence, that now seems to be changing. Bentley’s CEO, Adrian Hallmark, told journalists that the 2030 deadline should no longer be regarded as hard and fast. “We may drag it out a bit longer,” he said, on an embargo'd conference call on Friday discussing the company’s financial results, “but not to 2035 or 2040, just for a couple more years.”
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Here in the UK, where Bentleys are assembled from VW parts, the news is that Bently are focusing on hybrid (gas plus battery), at the expense of the EV program, as the market is realigning itself for a more modest uptake in BEV than out politicians would like us to believe.