The British sports car maker says 95% of its vehicles sold from 2030 onwards will be either electrified or all-electric, and the remaining 5% will fall on racecars.
The statement comes from CEO Tobias Moers himself. Unlike Bentley, which plans to forego internal combustion engines completely in nine years’ time, Aston will act more conservatively by electrifying exactly half of its range while hybridizing another 45%. The DBX SUV in particular will debut with a mild-hybrid powertrain under the hood later this year, and will become a PHEV by 2023.
According to Moers, the part-electric Valkyrie hypercar will positively get a power-boosted, racetrack-only version someday in the future. Having said that, the company announced 25 AMR Pro versions of the Valkyrie (see our gallery and the video) as far back as 2017, and had since sold out the entire batch through pre-orders, but is yet to start shipping even the standard Valkyrie, let alone the special edition.
Customers are now looking forward to getting their cars equipped with 6.5-liter naturally aspirated V12 engines and a power regeneration system by Rimac in the second half of 2021 of everything goes according to plan.