Bentley will launch its first battery-electric model in 2025

Bentley confirmed that it will produce its first EV in 2025, while committing £2.5 billion, or $3.3 billion, to the electrification effort, which is a part of its Beyond100 plan first revealed in 2020. The automaker plans to develop and produce its first EV in the UK, and will take a sharp turn toward battery-electric models soon thereafter, shooting for 100% of its lineup to be electric by 2030, and aiming to achieve end-to-end carbon neutrality by the same year.

That’s right: Bentley plans to produce nothing but EVs starting in 2030.

“Beyond100 is the boldest plan in Bentley’s illustrious history, and in the luxury segment. It’s an ambitious and credible roadmap to carbon neutrality of our total business system, including the shift to 100 percent BEV in just eight years,” added Adrian Hallmark, chairman and CEO of Bentley Motors.

Given the fact that Bentley is part of the Volkswagen Group, it could have fielded an EV even a couple of years ago if it really wanted to, so the barrier for Bentley has not been technological. Rather, it has more to do with market acceptance and the platform cycles of its parent company, in addition to investment cycles and product planning.

It is worth noting that 2025 is around the time that the VW Group’s Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) will arrive, with Audi already scheduled to use SSP modules as a part of its Artemis project in 2025, followed by Volkswagen’s Trinity project in 2026. autoweek.com