Bond 24 film shooting in Rome (Picture: EPA)

The days of electric car struggling to reach 70mph are now long gone with Aston Martin beginning production of an all-electric model in two years time.

The four door model will have a 200-mile radius, an impressive 800 horsepower and four wheel drive.

It will be known as the Aston Martin Rapide DBX and is the successor to their petrol/electric hybrid, Pocket Lint reports.

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Aston Martin’s CEO, Andy Palmer said: ‘What Tesla clearly shows you is we haven’t hit the ceiling in terms of price.



‘But I think it’s hard, though not impossible, for them as a relatively new brand to keep pushing up and to go into that super premier area.’

The Duke Of Cambridge in an Aston Martin Rapide S hybrid (Picture: Getty Images)

How much will this cost you ask? Between the eye-watering figures of £128,000 and £160,000, ouch.

Talking about the new Tesla’s new Ludicrous Mode which does 0-60 in 0.28 seconds, Palmer said: ‘We don’t do ludicrous because ludicrous speed is stupid.

‘I think that the fact that you could drive a few laps of a decent race course or race it around the Nordschleife is much more interesting than doing 500 meters in Ludicrous mode.’

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