Aston Martin’s future EV line-up can be powered by batteries provided from US-based EV startup, Lucid, that additionally makes the favored Lucid Air EV sedan. Lucid’s elements will type the idea of Aston’s new battery-electric car platform, set to underpin a spread of fashions together with an electrified hypercar, sports activities car, GT and SUV. 

Lucid solely produces the Lucid Air EV sedan in the intervening time that comes with single-, dual- and tri-motor powertrains, of which essentially the most highly effective outputs greater than 1200hp. It says its current-generation motors are able to producing as much as 670hp whereas weighing barely lower than 74kg apiece. Aston Martin additionally confirmed it can proceed to have entry to Mercedes-Benz applied sciences together with powertrains (each electrical and inner combustion) and electrical architectures.  First Aston Martin EV will arrive by 2026. This can be a “new product” on a “new platform”, chief inventive officer Marek Reichman stated earlier this month.

 

Aston Martin will begin deliveries of its first plug-in hybrid mannequin – the Valhalla supercar – subsequent yr, and by 2026 every of its mannequin strains will supply an electrified powertrain.