Bentley Scraps Electrification Timeline for New Flexible Approach

Bentley's Next Electric Model Is Coming After 2030

Bentley has no intention of setting another date for going fully electric. Big kahuna Frank-Steffen Walliser told Autocar at the Torcal's debut event in London that the era of the decade-long roadmap is over at Crewe, killing off the last remnant of the Beyond100 strategy the company announced back in 2020. Walliser does not expect predictable planning to come back anytime soon. Regulators, in his telling, have new ideas every week. ... (continu…

Bentley scraps electrification timeline for new flexible approach

CEO says "predictable planning" won't come back as he eyes 36-month lead times and multi-powertrain line-up Bentley is adopting a much more flexible and agile electrification strategy in response to uncertainties in the marketplace, having scrapped a previous plan to make the brand all-electric by 2030. In 2020, the company announced plans to phase out all combustion models by the end of this decade, but in light of waning luxury EV demand and r…

Bentley Abandons 2030 EV Deadline, Keeps Gas Engines Alive

Bentley drops its 2030 all-electric deadline, launching the Torcal EV while keeping combustion and hybrid models in a more flexible lineup.