Bentley’s first all-electric automobile arrives subsequent 12 months. At this time, we get a preview within the type of the EXP 15, which is without doubt one of the strangest issues we have ever seen from the British automaker. It is a tall, three-seat electrical automobile with two doorways on the left facet, and one door on the correct facet. 

Bentley designers took inspiration from a 1930 Velocity Six three-seater named “Blue Prepare” after a well-known race proprietor Woolf Barnato ran towards a French practice. Bentley calls the EXP 15 a “sedan,” although it has a coupe profile extra like a Continental GT, and certainly, the 1930 Velocity Six. There is a seat behind the (right-hand) driver’s seat, and one on the left rear of the automobile. In renderings, Bentley even reveals a bespoke canine mattress that sits forward of the left-side passenger seat. There’s additionally a tailgate on the again, with in-built picnic chairs, presumably for watching polo from.

As EVs do not want an enormous grille to chill an engine, Bentley as an alternative opted for an ornamental lighting ingredient its head exterior designer, Robin Web page, calls a chunk of “digital artwork.” Like earlier combustion-powered Bentleys, there’s a particularly lengthy hood, however with out an engine, Bentley had room to create two storage panels, accessed by middle hinging doorways. 

Photograph by: Bentley

Photograph by: Bentley

Photograph by: Bentley

Inside, there are the requisite screens throughout the dashboard, however Bentley is fast to level out plenty of extra old-school parts. There’s bodily local weather and steering-wheel controls and textiles from a 250-year-old English firm. 

Bentley says this idea kind of exists in an area between its present fashions, the Continental GT coupe, the Flying Spur sedan, and the Bentayga SUV. “The fantastic thing about an idea automobile is not only to place our new design language, however to check the place the market’s going. It’s clear that SUVs are a rising section and we perceive the GT market—by way of 4 generations of the Continental GT—however the trickiest section is the sedan as a result of it’s altering,” stated Web page in a press release. “Some prospects need a basic ‘three-box’ sedan form, others a ‘one-box’ design, and others once more one thing extra elevated. So this was an opportunity for us to speak to individuals and get a sense.”

At first, it appears like one thing of a departure for Bentley, however the EXP 15 matches in properly with its previous and current. Ettore Bugatti as soon as apparently described Bentley’s 3-Litre because the “quickest lorry on the planet.” In comparison with Bugatti’s automobiles, Bentleys had been hulking beasts, however they had been profitable in racing and beloved by fans. This large, asymmetrical idea automobile may be an EV, however there is no such thing as a doubt it’s a Bentley.

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