Bentley Bentayga EWB Storms Up Goodwood Hillclimb Pulling A Fully Loaded Trailer

The Bentley Bentayga EWB has set an unofficial file up the Goodwood Pageant of Velocity’s well-known hill climb by towing 2.5 tonnes of straw up the course in simply 1 minute and 21 seconds.

Bentley made the spectacular run due to Ifor Williams Trailers, the UK’s largest producer of trailers below 3,500 kg (7,716 lbs) but it surely’s probably not the run itself that’s most spectacular. As an alternative, it’s the truth that the Bentayga EWB was powered by renewable gas created from agricultural waste straw.

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Every fashionable Bentley collaborating on this weekend’s Goodwood Pageant of Velocity will likely be utilizing this renewable gas that guarantees to cut back carbon emissions by 85% on a well-to-wheels foundation. The two.5 tonnes of straw shifted by the Bentayga EWB on its distinctive run up the Hillclimb is sufficient to create 1,100 miles value of gas that each one fashionable Bentleys can run with out modification. This type of biofuel additionally conforms to the worldwide EN228 commonplace for gasoline.

This revolutionary second-generation biofuel makes use of waste biomass that’s damaged down utilizing fermentation. This results in the creation of ethanol that’s then dehydrated to create ethylene that may be remodeled into gasoline by means of a course of known as oligomerization. By way of this course of, brief hydrocarbon molecules are chained collectively to supply longer, extra energy-dense ones.

Driving the Bentayga EWB is a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine that’s good for 542 hp and 568 lb-ft (770 Nm) of torque. This enables it to hit 62 mph (100 km/h) in 4.5 seconds. Along with that includes a posh all-wheel drive system, the Bentayga EWB additionally has digital all-wheel steering that steers the rear wheels in tandem with the entrance wheels at freeway speeds to enhance stability and in the other way at low speeds to successfully shorten the wheelbase and enhance the turning circle.