Bentley Hybrid Concept is a plug-in Mulsanne

Posted on 09-04-2014 at 13:27 by sir_smokalot – 25 Comments”

Bentley elektrificeert his largest battleship, the Mulsanne, that you are already on a future plug-Bentley can get used to it. The British call the result simply Hybrid Concept.

We said it was two topics ago: electrification is the future. While Rolls-Royce after long hesitation, however, tack seems to go is the Bentley that the first is a concrete product with a battery, drop it. In 2017, the planned SUV is the first plug-in Bentley, a taste of the technology we now get to get in this Mulsanne.

In fact, it is the Hybrid Concept is not much more than a standard Mulsanne where batteries are added to it. The 6,75 litre V8 is retained, and also the appearance looks identical to the conventional Mulsanne, some conceptdetails, such as the quite original koperelementen (nice coil form in the counters!) aside.

‘The plug-in hybrid system will offer a power increase of up to 25% together with a 70% reduction in CO2 emissions’, according to Bentley. With the technology, which is directly from the VAG-shelf, 50 km of pure electric driving.

About a week and a half debuts the Bentley Hybrid Concept at the Beijing motor show. At the end of this decade 90% of Bentleys production plug-in hybrid.

Update: the spoof that you knew would come. Sniff!

Gallery: Bentley Hybrid Concept

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