Bentley says first luxury electric car due 2025
Published on: Thursday, January 27, 2022
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Bentley's first battery-powered electric vehicle will be developed and built at its factory in Crewe, northwest England. — Reuters pic
Its first battery-powered electric vehicle will be developed and built at its factory in Crewe, northwest England, Bentley said in a statement.
The carmaker, owned by Volkswagen, added it was investing £2.5 billion (RM14.1 billion) “in sustainability over the next ten years”.
“It’s an ambitious and credible roadmap to carbon neutrality of our total business,” Bentley chief executive and chairman Adrian Hallmark added in the statement.
Parent group Volkswagen — whose 12 brands include also Audi, Porsche and Skoda — is pumping €35 billion (RM165 billion) into the shift to electric vehicles and aims to become the world’s largest electric carmaker by 2025.
Bentley employs about 4,000 staff at its Crewe facility.
