2 April 2021
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Aston Martin to build electric sports car and SUV in UK from 2025

The car manufacturer is set to begin building EVs in the UK, but may start by using Mercedes powertrains, but they won’t be built in Germany.

The car manufacturer is set to begin building EVs in the UK, but may start by using Mercedes powertrains, but they won’t be built in Germany.


According to the Financial Times car manufacturer Aston Martin plans to build an electric SUV and an electric sports car at its UK based production facilities from 2025.


Chairman Lawrence Stroll confirmed this when speaking to the newspaper at the manufacturer’s Gaydon headquarters: “The SUV will be built in Wales and the sports cars will be built here,” instead of being built by Mercedes-Benz in Germany, who are a 20% stakeholder in the company.


It could still be that these cars will make use of batteries and motors supplied by Mercedes, as it already has a pair of electric series-production cars currently on sale, whereas Aston Martin has not yet manufactured a bespoke EV drivetrain.


Stroll also stated: “We are way ahead of our rivals, and all because of our partnership with Mercedes.”



This statement follows the recent claim from Tobias Moers, the CEO of Aston Martin, who said that the manufacturer is already able to obtain electric, hybrid and combustion powertrain components at “a reasonable cost situation” from Mercedes.


The plan for their first electric production vehicle is a hybrid version of the new DBX SUV, which is due to be released later this year. It is expected to be a plug-in hybrid and make use of a variation of its 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8, which is in line with the PHEV versions of Mercedes-AMG’s GT 4dr Coupe and S-Class performance saloons that are due to be released soon.


The mid-engined Valhalla supercar from Aston Martin will also be making use of hybrid technology, but it is highly likely that it will forgo the bespoke electrified V6 used in the 2019 concept and will instead utilise an AMG-supplied unit.


We are also expecting to see a reworked version of the Ferrari SF90 Stardale rival in the coming months ahead of its market launch in 2023, which has already had some orders placed by customers according to Aston Martin.


At this stage little is known of the electric models that have been mentioned by Stroll, but he did confirm that the sports car is going to be a “front-engine version of a DB11/Vantage” and will be sold alongside “an SUV higher four-wheel-drive one”.


Stroll did go on to say that the designs are yet to be finalised and it still remains to be seen whether these eclectic Aston Martin models will use the same DB name prefix we’ve seen for over 70 years.


He also discussed how these electric Aston Martin’s will be differentiated from their competition as well as their potentially related Mercedes siblings, saying that they will have “our beautiful body, our suspension, our vehicle dynamics [and] our bespoke interiors”.


It will be exciting to see what comes out of Aston Martin as they take steps into the world of EVs and will be interesting to see how they approach these models with the driving capabilities and style we’ve come to expect from them.