Rolls-Royce will electricity, with British car makers announcing his first all-eV, Rolls-Royce Specter. Part of the plan that will change the company’s luxury range into one fully in 2030, Spectre will be the first of the new EVS, which is expected to come to the market at Q4 2023.
This is not the first temptation of Rolls-Royce with electricity, of course, though so far all we see from the BMW brand owned has become a concept and prototype. Everything back in 2011, Rolls-Royce 102EX gave a phantom sedan with an all-electric treatment, explained by the car maker as a “work bed” for potential alternative drivetrain technology.
Other electrification concepts are slightly underestimated. The next 100 Rolls-Royce Vision is a strange departure for the company, the length of the ghost but with a truncated bodywork, the wheels are almost closed, and the roof line of the coupe that swoopes. Again, the idea is not to bring the right car to the market, Rolls-Royce said, but instead to see what the next 100 years the company.
However, the specter will arrive faster. The new two doors will be based on exclusive aluminum architecture car makers, the same unique space frame that supports the latest phantom, Cullinan and Ghost. This is a platform that is shared without other car makers, and is designed from the beginning with alternative powertrain in mind.
To ensure it meets expectations, Rolls-Royce says SpecTRE will go through “the most demanding testing program” in Marque’s history. It will simulate more than 400 years of use, on average, for car maker owners by driving an EVS nearly 1.6 million miles, taking prototypes around the world to juddle it in different conditions.
“You will see this test car on the road, around the world. Look for them – they will be clearly visible,” Torsten Müller-Ötvös, CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, said about a specter prototype. “They will be tested in all conditions and above all terrain on their multi-million mile trips that will accelerate the rolls into the future.”
The right specifications for specter, at this stage, are not distributed. Details such as reach and power will come later. But it was clear that Rolls-Royce leaned on the potential of the electric drive core to adjust the profile of the vehicle: What, said Müller-Övös, the company called “Waftability.”
Loss of silence and instant torque EVS matches, of course, profiles of large luxury cars well. Indeed, that reason we have seen rivals like Bentley and the others embrace electrification; Bentley planned the first electric car first in 2025, and already had several hybrids within its reach. In 2030, too, would no longer make a model with a combustion engine.
The Rolls-Royce Challenge – As with other car makers – is to pack in a sufficient range to meet the demands of its customers. It is a group that is not used to compromise, and expects great things from their six-picture vehicles.