Aston Martin Pushes Back Its First EV Until at Least 2033
Aston Martin’s first EV isn’t growing larger on the horizon. If anything, it’s becoming harder to see.
The British marque’s CEO, Adrian Hallmark, revealed that its debut battery-powered model now won’t arrive until sometime between 2033 and 2035, according to Autocar. Additionally, the automaker has committed to continuing to build traditional V-8 and V-12 engines until the latter of those dates.
Over the last few years, we’ve seen a number of legacy automakers back off their previously announced (and apparently overly ambitious) electrification pledges. One of the more prominent names to do so has been Aston Martin. At the beginning of the decade, the company said it expected to unveil its first EV by 2025, but then that date got pushed back to 2026 and then to sometime before 2030. Well, its arrival has been postponed again, and the executive’s words make it sound as if the company will refrain from introducing a battery-powered model to its lineup until it absolutely must.
The Aston Martin Valhalla is powered by a V-8 paired with a trio of electric motors.
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“We only need BEVs to be compliant for legislative reasons [in certain markets] just before 2035,” Hallmark told the newspaper. “I’m not going to give an absolute date, because it’s imprecise. It could be 2035, it might be 2033, but it’s in that three-year window. It’s not 2031.”
It’s not particularly surprising to see Aston Martin delay the debut of its first EV yet again. Since 2024, the company has made clear its traditional customer base just isn’t all that interested in a car that doesn’t come with a snarling combustion engine. That year, the brand’s executive chairman, Lawrence Stroll, said demand “is not what we thought it was going to be [when first announcing its EV].”
Despite this, Hallmark told Autocar that Aston Martin “are not BEV deniers but BEV delayers.” The company knows electric cars are the future, especially since legislation in the E.U. and the U.K. will require all new vehicles sold to be zero-emissions by 2035. That’s why Aston Martin has technology agreements in place with its current engine supplier, Mercedes-Benz, and EV-only Lucid.
Until then, though, Aston Martin intends to give its customers more of what they want. In the lead-up to 2035, Hallmark explained the marque will focus on cars with ICE powertrains. The executives said the company has a road map to help it keep alive both its V-8 and V-12 engines until that time. This includes the Valhalla supercar, which features a Mercedes-AMG-sourced V-8 engine paired with a trio of electric motors.
