Bentley Torcal Unveiled as Bentley's First EV: Specs, Price and India Launch Timeline

Bentley revealed the Torcal, its first fully electric production car, in London on September 23, 2026. It's a mid-size luxury SUV built on Volkswagen Group's Premium Platform Electric, the same underpinnings as the Porsche Cayenne Electric, with a 113kWh battery, up to 600km of WLTP range, and a flagship Torcal S trim that makes up to 876bhp and 1,350Nm. Two versions are available from launch, priced from around £160,000 in the UK. In India, the Torcal arrives in the second half of 2027 at an expected price of around ₹4.5 crore, ex-showroom, pricier than a petrol Bentayga because EVs sit outside the new India-UK FTA's duty cuts.

What Is the Bentley Torcal?

The Torcal is Bentley's fourth model line, joining the Bentayga, Continental GT and Flying Spur. Unlike those three, it will never be offered with a petrol engine. Bentley has described it as a template for how every future Bentley will look and feel, regardless of what powers it.

The name comes from El Torcal de Antequera, a limestone nature reserve in southern Spain known for its stacked rock formations and cliffs, continuing a naming pattern that also gave us the Bentayga, Bacalar and Batur. Bentley also points out that Torcal traces back to the Latin torquere, meaning "to twist", the same root as the word torque.

Physically, the Torcal sits 50mm lower and is 120mm shorter than a standard-wheelbase Bentayga, with a wheelbase just over three metres and an overall length just under five metres. Kerb weight comes in at roughly 2.7 tonnes. It's also the first Bentley to wear the brand's redesigned emblem.

Design and Interior: What's New

Bentley's design team, led by Robin Page, built the Torcal around an illuminated grille made of crystal-effect diamond elements set behind a clear polycarbonate panel, replacing the vanes or mesh you'd find on a combustion Bentley. The rear gets some of the slimmest tail lamps the brand has built, tied together with a U-shaped light motif.

Inside, the centrepiece is a curved OLED touchscreen that flows down into the centre console rather than sitting on the dash like a tablet. Bentley has kept physical switches alongside it, a deliberate choice given how many rivals have gone screen-only. A rotary dial around the starter button cycles through four Experience Modes (Bentley, Sport, Comfort and Refresh), each changing the cabin lighting, climate and sound.

A few standout details:

• Dynamic Symphony sound: instead of a synthesised engine note, Bentley recorded real drums, viola and bass to create the Torcal's driving soundtrack
• Merino wool upholstery: developed with Somerset weaver Fox Brothers, described as an automotive industry first
• Naim audio option: 1,780W across 28 speakers with Dolby Atmos 7.1, versus a 620W, 16-speaker standard system
• Powered, radar-controlled doors: the driver's door shuts when you press the brake pedal, and passenger doors close when you buckle your seatbelt

The rear seat gets decent leg and headroom, heated and cooled seats, three USB-C ports (one rated at 100W), and a power-folding bench, a Bentley first. Boot space is a modest 460 litres, and there's no spare wheel, only a puncture repair kit. The frunk adds 90 litres.

Bentley Torcal Specs: Battery, Motors and Performance

Two versions are available from launch: the standard Torcal and the range-topping Torcal S First Edition. Both use twin permanent-magnet motors and come with all-wheel drive as standard.

Bentley says the platform, shared with the Porsche Cayenne Electric, could technically support well over 1,000hp. The company has chosen to hold both Torcal variants back, arguing that most buyers find anything faster uncomfortable in a car this size.

The chassis is Bentley's most advanced yet, with fully active suspension replacing conventional anti-roll bars, plus five degrees of rear-wheel steering that shrinks the turning circle to 11.1 metres. Carbon-ceramic brakes with 440mm front discs are optional. The ADAS suite uses 25 radars, sensors and cameras, and can reverse the car along the last 50 metres of its route or park itself in a space up to 200 metres away.

Bentley Torcal Range and Charging

The Torcal runs a 113kWh battery (108kWh usable) on an 800-volt architecture. The standard car is rated for 600km of WLTP range; the more powerful Torcal S will manage slightly less.

Bentley has clearly built the Torcal for long-distance driving, with plug'n'charge support built in. That said, India doesn't currently have public chargers rated at 400kW, so the headline 16-minute top-up is a European and North American story for now rather than something Indian owners can actually use at launch.

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Bentley Torcal Price: UK and Global Markets

In the UK, the entry-level Torcal starts at roughly £160,000-165,000 before options, broadly in line with a Bentayga. The Torcal S First Edition, loaded with options, has been quoted around £200,000. Bentley is targeting customer deliveries from the second quarter of 2027 globally, though it hasn't confirmed pricing or a delivery date for every market at launch.

Bentley Torcal India Launch: Timeline and Expected Price

According to Autocar India, which has already seen the fully loaded First Edition car, the Torcal is set to arrive in India in the second half of 2027 at an expected price of around ₹4.5 crore, ex-showroom. That's a meaningful step up from what a petrol Bentayga costs today, and the reason comes down to trade policy rather than the car itself.

The new India-UK Free Trade Agreement phases down import duty on UK-built petrol and hybrid luxury cars, cutting it from around 110% toward 10% over five years. Electric vehicles are specifically excluded from that relief in the early years, so a combustion Bentley gets progressively cheaper to import while the Torcal doesn't get the same benefit for now.

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The Torcal won't be the only UK-built luxury EV navigating this gap. Land Rover's Range Rover Electric, currently taking India bookings against a ₹10 lakh token with no confirmed price yet, faces the exact same duty carve-out, and unofficial estimates put it well past ₹3 crore.

Evfy's Take

Most of today's coverage is focused on the horsepower number and the diamond grille. For an Indian buyer, the more interesting story is what the India-UK FTA does to the Torcal's price over the next few years, and it isn't good news for early adopters.

As the FTA matures, a petrol Bentayga or Continental GT should get meaningfully cheaper in India, since combustion imports are on a five-year glide path down to a 10% duty. The Torcal doesn't share that glide path. Unless Bentley eventually assembles it locally, which there's no indication of yet given it will arrive as a fully imported car, its price stays pinned to the higher EV duty structure while its petrol siblings get relatively more affordable around it.

That's a pattern worth watching rather than a one-off Bentley quirk. The Range Rover Electric is in the same position, and it's a fair bet other UK-built luxury EVs entering India over the next few years will be too. If you're choosing between an electric and a petrol Bentley in India, the calculus of that choice is likely to keep shifting in the petrol car's favour for the next five years, at least on price.