Stephan Winkelmann and Adrian Hallmark plot second Bugatti and Bentley EV, reports Georg Kacher
A WHOPPING 516 grammes – that’s the mind-boggling amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the Bugatti Chiron over a laboratory kilometre. Bentley is at the sharp end of the offenders’ scale too, with a fleet average of around 285g/km.
With carbon footprints as big as an African elephant’s, greening the product range will be one of the priorities for the companies’ two newly installed leaders. They have replaced the retired Wolfgang Dürheimer, who headed both companies in his final years with the VW Group, where he’d held various senior posts since 1999.
Returning to Bentley as its chairman is Adrian Hallmark, who has spent the last five years as Jaguar Land Rover’s global strategy director. And ex-Lamborghini boss Stephan Winkelmann, after a short spell as CEO of Audi Sport, becomes president of Bugatti.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of CAR UK.
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