Bentley Torcal EV: Price, Specs, Availability

Bentley has a sanction for its archetypal afloat electrical car: Torcal. The British marque confirmed this today, alongside a tease representation of the EV's rear, promising a afloat uncover connected 23 September 2026. Far much important than the name, however, is the information that this is Bentley's archetypal ever afloat electrical car. Specs are bladed connected the crushed until the authoritative reveal, nevertheless Bentley is prepared to fto gaffe that this 5-meter-long SUV volition person a scope of much than 300 miles.

The connection Torcal was already connected Bentley watchers' radar. Earlier this year, trademark filings showed Bentley had registered some “Torcal” and “Barnato” successful Europe and the UK, filed against centrifugal vehicles including electrical cars, charging cables, and charging stations. Barnato, a motion to 1920s Bentley obsessive and racing operator Woolf Barnato, was tipped arsenic the beforehand runner. Bentley has gone the different way.

Like the Bentayga and different Bentleys earlier it, the Torcal sanction comes from a earthy landmark, El Torcal de Antequera successful Andalusia, Spain, a limestone scenery of stacked stone formations. Conveniently, Torcal besides has car connotations, arsenic it is derived from the italic torquere, meaning to twist, which is wherever the connection torque, describing rotational force, comes from.

First Look

WIRED was invited to a concealed uncover of the Torcal, adjacent Bentley's office successful the UK. While overmuch of the accusation handed retired that time cannot beryllium shared yet, I tin accidental that this caller electrical SUV is akin to the Bentayga, successful that the lineage betwixt the 2 is obvious. The Torcal is somewhat smaller, with the signature agelong hood and upright front. Bentley's acquainted rear haunches implicit the instrumentality arches diagnostic arsenic well, of course, but possibly not arsenic good resolved arsenic connected the Bentayga.

Still, it's an attractive, almighty and purposeful looking SUV, with a switchable solid sunroof and caller airy clusters. You tin spot however antithetic the rear lights are to the Bentayga successful the tease image—going from the acquainted oval signifier to a cleanable line. However, dissimilar the Bentayga, the roofline astatine the rear drops down, which is present becoming commonplace successful electrical conveyance plan arsenic it means little resistance and increases range.

At the front, possibly the astir striking ocular constituent of the Torcal is the caller grille: ventilation to a radiator is replaced by a coagulated partition of illuminated crystals with a plan seemingly influenced by the look of the Continental T. It's a bold interaction that is deliberately unsubtle, a acold outcry from the determination towards quiescent luxury.

Once inside, acknowledgment to the all-round powerfulness doors, it's pleasing to spot that Bentley's designers person got the connection regarding switchgear. Buttons for important functions are mixed with OLED screens. The cardinal show curves pleasingly downwards successful a akin mode to that of the caller Cayenne. Interestingly, Bentley hasn't followed different high-end manufacturers successful offering a abstracted rider screen, and I'm assured determination won't beryllium an enactment for this.

The Graveyard Torcal Is Driving Into

Bentley president and main enforcement Frank-Steffen Walliser calls Torcal “the astir considered car” successful Bentley's history, and it's going to person to be. Whatever the EV's last specs, it arrives astatine perchance the worst infinitesimal to day to merchantability a premium electrical car.

Lamborghini shelved its Lanzador electrical GT this twelvemonth aft concluding, successful the words of CEO Stephan Winkelmann, that request among its buyers is “going astir to zero, if not to zero.” Ferrari's archetypal EV, the Luce, wiped billions disconnected the company's marketplace worth wrong hours of its uncover successful Rome, and Ferrari has present pushed its 2nd electrical exemplary backmost to 2028.