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Bentley Pushes Back Target of All-Electric Luxury Cars to 2035

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British luxury carmaker Bentley said Thursday that it was pushing back its target of building only 100-percent electric models by five years, until 2035.

Four years after outlining its strategy of being fully electric by 2030, Bentley CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser said the company was "maintaining our aim of a decarbonised future, including offering only fully electric cars from 2035."

Bentley, which is part of Germany's Volkswagen group, also said in a statement that its first fully electric luxury car, an SUV, would be launched in 2026.

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The car will be made at its historic site in Crewe, England, where it employs 4,000 people and conducts all of its activities including design, R&D and production.

The new model will compete against other luxury electric vehicles already on the market like the Mercedes-Benz EQS, BMW i7 and Audi e-tron GT.

It will also go up against the Rolls-Royce Spectre coupe, the first electric model from BMW-owned Rolls-Royce, which plans to stop building combustion vehicles by the end of 2030.

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