Bentley CEO Details Brand’s Future Plug-In Hybrid System

Description: When Bentley announced its beefy Hybrid Concept for the 2014 Beijing auto show, the company was long on broad potential benefits and future plans for its new hybrid system, but woefully short on detail. Discontented, we decided to bother the brand’s outgoing CEO, Dr. Wolfgang Schrieber, in Beijing for specifics—and got some. As we suspected, the setup will be quite simple and familiar to fans of VW Group hybrids: A thin electric motor/generator embedded between the engine and transmission