Plenty of automakers have already announced delayed or canceled plans for new EVs, and that applies to the very top of the market as well. Less than a month after Bentley said it plans to delay its move to full electrification, Aston Martin has confirmed a similar postponement – and a shift to PHEVs.“We planned to launch the first car next year,” Lawrence Stoll, Aston’s executive chairman, told journalists at the company’s Gaydon HQ in England on Wednesday.
But beyond that will be a new line of front-engined plug-ins.“We are going to invest much more heavily in our PHEV program to be a bridge between full combustion and full electric,” Stroll said, “we think that for our customers and our market that’s going to play out and last quite a while.”Stroll confirmed he thinks Aston will be selling plug-ins until the mid-2030s, or even further. “For as long as we are allowed to legally, we will keep making them.