electricity deferred, plug hybrids first

The market is free, even when someone in Brussels dreams of settingtotal electricity. The most recent demonstration in this sense – which certainly is not the first and will not be the last – is the slow announcement of Aston Martin for introducing his first show electric supercar. A decrease, not a cancellation, let’s be clear, but that still restores the image of one water condition: If the 90th minute seemed close to endothermic, now the referee seems to be interested in adding extra time. Good overtime.

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STOP! “We had planned to launch the first car next year,” he said Lawrence StollAston’s executive chairman: “We were ready to do it, but it seems that the interest in the electric car market was driven more by politicsinstead of going out request of users. Especially in various prices of Aston Martin”. Most of the development work would have already been done and was on the launch pad four different battery powered modelsbased on one platform: a large car, an SUV, a crossover and a hypercar, but suddenly Aston Martin realized that no one, or almost no one, could buy: “We really felt. lack of demand on the consumer side,” Stroll said, “we talk to our sellers, we talk to our customers – when you have a small network you can communicate easily. And everyone said they still want it soundthey still want itsmell of exhaust gases”.

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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS Today, therefore, those who have the money to spend on a luxury car want it to be politically correct: ”it stinks and makes noise”. After all, it’s no secret that sound – the real one, not the one derived from Terrible electronic waste – is the first thing that makes your head spin when someone arrivesrace car. That is why Aston has decided that its first electric model will not be launched until 2027: two years after the originally planned date. In this way it allows itself to be overtaken by Ferrariwhich instead declares itself to be on time with its roadmap and predicts the debut of the electric car at the end of 2025. At the same time, Aston says it intends to focus on a new range of plugging combination, a (confusing) plug-in hybrid, which will eventually replace its non-electric counterparts. A decision that was probably inspired by the experience of Ferrari, which in 2023 sold more with four hybrid models than with nine others with a traditional engine.

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ATON ON TAP It will be the first Aston Martin to combine a petrol and electric engine under the bonnet with a plug-in rechargeable battery. the great chariot of Valhalla already announced, and derived from the twin-turbo V8 Mercedes-AMG combined to produce 937 HP and 1,000 Nm of torque. But beyond that there will be a new line of front-engine plug-ins. “We will invest more in our program PHEVwhich will act as a bridge between traditional and electric engines,” says Stroll, according to whom plug-ins will continue to be sold until the mid-2030s, or even longer. “As long as we are legally allowed, we will continue to produce them.” Before Aston Martin , less than a month ago, was Bentley announce that they want to delay the transition period to complete the supply of electricity and it seems that even Electric Fiat 500e is about to undergo a heart transplant that will provide hybrid variants: reach the market. Different parts, but the trend is the same. Look’!