Rolls-Royce has unveiled its first fully electric motor car, the Spectre, with plans to deliver the vehicle in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Spectre is expected to have a range of 320 miles (520 kilometres) WLTP and offer 900 Nm of torque from its 430kW powertrain. It is anticipated to achieve 0-60mph in 4.4 seconds and 0-100km/h in 4.5 seconds.
The vehicle is 5,453 mm long, 2,080 mm wide, and 1,559 mm tall. It has a wheelbase of 3,210 mm and weighs 2,975 kg. Spectre pricing will be positioned between the Cullinan and Phantom.
“This is the start of a bold new chapter for our marque, our extraordinary clients, and the luxury industry,” said Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer. “For this reason, I believe Spectre is the most perfect product that Rolls-Royce has ever produced.”
“The electric car is perfectly noiseless and clean,” said The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, Co-Founder, Rolls-Royce, in 1900. “There is no smell or vibration. They should become very useful when fixed charging stations can be arranged.”
In September 2021, the marque confirmed that it had commenced testing of Spectre, the first Rolls-Royce to be conceived and engineered from the very beginning as an electric car. Winter testing was completed in April 2022. The entire product portfolio will be fully electric by the end of 2030.
Spectre is the first production two-door coupé to be equipped with 23-inch wheels in almost one hundred years, the company said. For the first time on a series production Rolls-Royce, Spectre is available with starlight doors, which incorporate 4,796 softly illuminated ‘stars’.
Development of the motor car began just 55km from the arctic circle in Arjeplog, Sweden, at temperatures as low as -40 degrees centigrade, and it will continue across Southern Africa, in temperatures of up to 55 degrees centigrade. Yet, 55% of testing is taking place on the very roads that many production Spectres will be driven on. Of particular significance was the French Riviera. It was on the Côte d'Azur that Spectre’s digitally integrated evolution of the renowned Planar suspension system was finalised, the company said.