Bentley says the Torcal, its first fully electric SUV, will be the most powerful and quickest-accelerating production car ever built in Crewe, targeting 0 to 60 mph in under three seconds.Reports point to a dual-motor setup producing more than 838 hp and 738 lb-ft, a 373-mile WLTP range target and 400 kW charging that adds roughly 100 miles in about seven minutes.The world premiere takes place Sept. 23, 2026 in London, with the Torcal arriving as a 2028 model and US sales beginning in 2027. For more than a century, Bentley has sold one idea above all others: effortless speed. Not frantic speed, not shouty speed, but the sort of unbothered forward motion that suggests the driver has somewhere important to be and no intention of appearing rushed about it. The engines changed over the decades, from the Speed Six to the 6.75-liter V8 to the mighty W12, but the philosophy did not. Now comes the Torcal, and it has no engine at all. Bentley's first electric SUV will be the most powerful production car Crewe has ever built, and the fastest off the line too. Coming from a company whose current benchmark, the Continental GT Speed, musters 771 hp and 3.1 seconds to 60 mph, that is quite a statement. And it is one Bentley has been building toward for a while. CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser confirmed months ago that there would be no combustion variant, no range extender, no plug-in hybrid compromise, calling such an addition technically unfeasible and strategically pointless.All images in this article are officially from Bentley, and they're keeping things quite tight and under wraps. Here is the silhouette, for example: What We Know About Bentley's First EV Before the London Reveal The headline figures, sourced from MotorTrend, put the dual-motor Torcal beyond 838 hp and 738 lb-ft, with a WLTP range target of 373 miles. Charging is where things get genuinely impressive: a 400 kW DC peak that Bentley reckons can restore roughly 100 miles in about seven minutes, with 10 to 80 percent projected to take under 20 minutes. Sub-three-second acceleration is the goal, though Bentley insists the experience should feel serene rather than violent, which it describes as effortless progression. Same religion, different scripture. Underneath sits the Volkswagen Group's PPE platform, already familiar from the Audi Q6 e-tron and Porsche Macan Electric, and the Torcal is expected to be closely related to the electric Cayenne. That relationship shows inside, where teaser footage revealed a curved touchscreen reminiscent of Porsche's Flow Display. Crucially, Bentley has not surrendered entirely to glass. Below the screen sit meaningful physical controls, including a large rotary dial and a bank of switches the Porsche does without. The instrument cluster is fully digital, and diamond motifs, a Crewe signature since the 1920s, appear in both a floating grille and the stitched upholstery. Bentley has also confirmed a Curation Engine that shifts lighting, climate and audio between Bentley, Comfort and Sport modes, plus a synthesized soundtrack developed with musicians and named the Bentley Dynamic Symphony, filling the silence where a V8 used to live. The car will be slightly smaller than the Bentayga, and given the Cayenne Turbo Electric opens at $165,350, expect the Bentley's price to start with a two. Whether the faithful accept it is the open question. We find out Sept. 23.
