Flewitt predicts that figure will swell to 4,500 to 5,000 annually, which “is about capacity,” for the company’s production facility, he told Automotive News Europe. The increase in production is key to a revenue-driven research-and-development effort that will allow the company to create 15 new products and introduce “a completely new powertrain architecture … specifically designed for a hybridized application,” Flewitt said.
“In the latter part of this business plan to 2022, more than half our cars will be hybrids,” Flewitt told ANE. “This second powertrain will run in parallel to the eight cylinder we have today and will have hybrid technology integrated into it from day one.” This new model would arrive near the end of the decade, Flewitt said, but unlike the company’s current and only hybrid, the P1, it won’t be a plug-in hybrid.
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