Bentley details £2.5bn electric car model blitz: FIVE new EVs from 2025

Bentley has revealed a ‘Five-in-Five’ plan to launch an electric car every year from 2025. It comes as part of a £2.5 billion investment.

Bentley Beyond 100 update

Bentley will launch a new electric car every year from 2025. The plan is part of a £2.5 billion sustainable investment that will also transform its famous Crewe works into a futuristic eco factory.

The Five-in-Five plan will coordinate the roll-out of new electric Bentleys. It accelerates the electrification of the firm’s luxury cars, which is already underway with the new Flying Spur PHEV plug-in hybrid.

By the end of this year, one in five new Bentleys will be a hybrid. Come 2025, the five new electric derivatives will see electrification grow much further.

Bentley Beyond100

It marks the ramping up of Bentley’s ‘Beyond100’ strategy, and the firm isn’t stopping with just electric cars.

Bentley is turning its famous Crewe headquarters into a zero-emission ‘dream factory’, building on the carbon neutral landmark it achieved back in 2019.

Now, Bentley wants to become fully carbon neutral across all products and non-factory operations.

Bentley Beyond 100 update

The number of solar panels on-site will grow from 30,000 to 40,000, while water consumption, waste to landfill and other environmental impacts will also be minimised.

Bentley says the Crewe factory will become ‘a digital, zero environmental impact, flexible and high-value manufacturing facility’.

Even its dealers are set to play their part, with Bentley’s retailer network aiming for carbon neutrality by 2025 – and ‘possibly even sooner’.

Leading in sustainability

Bentley calls Beyond100 the boldest plan of its kind in the luxury car sector.

Accelerating it further, along with the ‘Five-in-Five’ EV plan, ‘confirms the initiation of a major transformative phase in the company’s long and illustrious history,’ says Bentley chairman and CEO Adrian Hallmark.

“The world is changing and we need to play our part in neutralising our environmental impact.

“That means delivering on our aim to be end-to-end carbon neutral by 2030, and reaffirming our role as the leader in sustainable luxury mobility.”

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Richard Aucock
Richard Aucockhttps://www.richardaucock.co.uk/
Richard is director at Motoring Research. He has been with us since 2001, and has been a motoring journalist even longer. He won the IMCO Motoring Writer of the Future Award in 1996 and the acclaimed Sir William Lyons Award in 1998. Both awards are run by the Guild of Motoring Writers and Richard is currently vice chair of the world's largest organisation for automotive media professionals. Richard is also a juror and Steering Committee director for World Car Awards and the UK juror for the AUTOBEST awards.

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