Aston Martin EV now delayed until at least 2033

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V8s and V12s will comprise Aston Martin's line-up until at least 2033.

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George East

6 October 2026 · 3 min read

Aston Martin will not launch an EV until at least 2033, says its CEO, Adrian Hallmark.

Speaking to reporters at the opening of the British brand’s new ‘Q’ London showroom in Mayfair, London, Hallmark, who joined Aston Martin from Bentley in September 2024, said that the firm’s decision to be EV “delayers” is because customer demand for EVs and legislation are “changing way faster than any car company can cope with”.

As such, Aston Martin is taking a holistic approach to electrification and looking at demand and legal changes in specific markets: For example, UK and EU legislation currently dictates that all new cars sold from 2025 must be zero-emissions.

Until things become clearer, the Gaydon-based carmaker will focus on offering cars with V8 and V12 engines until halfway through the next decade.

Hallmark explained that Aston Martin only needs a fully-electric model “to be compliant for legislative reasons” in selected regions. “I’m not going to give an absolute [arrival] date, because it’s imprecise,” he said. “It could be 2035, it might be 2033, but it’s in that three-year window. It’s not 2031.”

This marks the third time Aston Martin has delayed the introduction of an EV. An electric-only model was first planned for 2027, then postponed until 2030. It could also delay major investment into its tie-up with Lucid, which gives Aston Martin access to the US manufacturer’s EV tech. The deal was penned in June 2023 to the tune of £182 million.

Hallmark cited the breakneck speeds of EV development from tech to market share as the reasoning behind this.

“We have the deal with Lucid, and the interesting thing is, because we delayed, by the time we activate that deal, the technology that we will get is totally different to what we signed up the original contract for,” he explained.

Looking to the future, Hallmark added: “Even if [we launch our first in] 2033, we’ve got three years where we can keep looking, keep thinking and keep evaluating different technologies and how they’re changing, and the markets and the legislation.

“And it’s only then that we would need to kick off investment. So today we’ve got very low-level investment, but it’s research and study, not even single-digit millions of investment.”

While Aston Martin will develop a completely new model range between 2030 and 2035 including hybrids, Hallmark stressed that plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) are almost out of the question “because we don’t need it; we don’t need the 200kg penalties”.

Aston Martin’s turbulent relationship with EVs goes back towards the end of the 2010s, when it planned to launch its Rapide-E, an electric version of the Rapide S.

Co-developed with Williams Advanced Engineering, a limited production run of 155 cars was planned for 2018. Ultimately, the project was cancelled in January 2020 for financial reasons.