car brand : Future Bentley EV’s Styling

Bentley is awash in activity of late. The nearly 100-year-old English brand is busy launching the Bentley Bentayga V8 and the Continental GT—its two most important, certainly best-selling—models, and has just revealed the Bentley Bentayga Hybrid at the Geneva auto show. While that will represent Crewe’s first foray into the electrified vehicle world, we’ve also known for some time that a full EV is in the works. Now it appears that EV could be here fairly soon. Bentley will celebrate its centenary next year, and we’re told the EV is expected to follow shortly after. Which means possibly in 2020, perhaps as a 2021 model. When it arrives it will be sporting an all-new architecture underneath, possibly a version of Porsche’s Mission E platform, called J1, internally.

Sielaff says this opens up new design possibilities.Bentley’s chief designer also says that while the freedom of a new electrical architecture allows you to create new proportions and designs, it has to be tempered with some caution. “It frees you up on the one hand, but it also makes you very careful, because you can’t do damage to the brand, it has to be a Bentley in the end.” Bentley’s design director also believes the interior space will become increasingly important. Traditionally, you “fall in love with the exterior, and then you go into a long-lasting partnership and marriage with the interior. It could change. It could be a paradigm change where we consider the interior more than today. A lot of luxury battleground is on the interior.”

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