Electric cars don’t need a grille, but Müller-Ötvös says he couldn’t imagine a Rolls-Royce without the traditional Parthenon and Spirit of Ecstasy mascot (which dates to 1911), so they were adapted-the lady now sits lower, with a more aerodynamic stance and wings. The colors are younger-Jubilee Silver and Iceland Green in the example sampled-and the profile less upright, with a very impressive 0.25 coefficient of drag. And the carpeting is still sinfully deep, complemented by leather and wood. The dials may be electronic, and monitoring an electric drivetrain, but they’re still fairly conservative. The Spectre is a bold styling departure, but it’s all well within Rolls-Royce tradition. In 2011 the company created 102EX, a one-of-a-kind Phantom electric show car with two motors driving the rear wheels, and that was followed by the wild 103EX, a vision of a future EV that might have been inspired by a pontoon boat. It’s not Rolls’ first modern electric car. The Spectre has a dramatic sculpted fastback roof that recalls the Rolls Phantom Coupe of 2008-2016, the Bentley Continental, and the Cadillac Sedanette of the late 1940s. There is no smell or vibration, and they should become very useful when fixed charging stations can be arranged.” That time is now, and the car will be delivered to its first customers in October. The official EPA range rating is 260 miles, but some media testers were seeing more than 300.Īccording to Müller-Ötvös, the all-new Spectre fastback coupe is the fulfillment of Charles Rolls’ 1900 statement, “The electric car is perfectly noiseless and clean. Rolls-Royces are always imposing, and the Spectre has a majestic presence despite its plentiful curves. Both are exciting to drive, but the Spectre wins hands down in styling, and is a quieter performance statement. The two models are quite distinct, though. and US$495,600 in Canada.Ĭomparisons to the BMW I7 electric are perhaps inevitable-the battery, for instance, is a modified version of the unit in that car. ![]() The Spectre’s dash to 60 miles per hour takes 4.4 seconds. The big nearly five-feet long “coach” doors are lightweight aluminum, too. The weight would have been higher if not for the all-aluminum “Architecture of Luxury” space frame platform (shared with Phantom, Ghost and Cullinan). The coupe produces 584 horsepower and 663 pound-feet of torque, which is helpful in moving the 6,371 pounds. The Spectre has a pair of electric motors, one for each axle (190 kilowatts front 360 kilowatts rear), and a 102-kilowatt-hour battery, made with ethically sourced cobalt and lithium. The Spectre’s interior is still traditional, but with bright, youthful colors. There are sensors monitoring “almost 20 different steering, braking, power delivery, and suspension parameters.” There is all-wheel drive, of course, and active air that is constantly scanning the road ahead. Stability is achieved by managing torque delivery to the wheels, and constantly adjusting the anti-roll bars and shock absorbers for maximum passenger protection. ![]() The Spectre doesn’t feel like a big car on the road, thanks in part to the four-wheel steering that aids cornering. The regen is there if the driver wants it (via the column-mounted “B” button) but in the default position the effect is quite mild. Instead, there’s stately progress, but plenty of passing power. The company was at pains to avoid some of the more jarring aspects of the average EV-the rocket-ship acceleration, the abrupt dive from regenerative braking. On the uncrowded, winding roads of vineyard country around Napa, the Spectre was very much in its element-wafting gently along. It’s ultra-quiet, with a hushed luxury interior that if anything is above the company’s usual standards. The Spectre drives just like a Rolls-Royce.
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