The first fully electric Rolls-Royce will be on sale in the last quarter of 2023. The Rolls-Royce Spectre, as it is named, is already under development, and recently the company competed in the second test phase of the electric car on the French Riviera, clocking 625,000 km in Southern France. The British carmaker has, till now, completed 2.5 million km of testing and achieved 40 per cent development for the Spectre EV. The carmaker extensively tested the Rolls-Royce Spectre EV at the Autodrome de Miramas facility and on Côte d’Azur roads.
Over the past months, the marque’s test and development engineers shifted focus from extreme conditions to more formal scrutiny in a location that reflects the EV’s everyday use.
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Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars said, “Spectre unlocks the extraordinary potential of integrating a fully electric powertrain into our Architecture of Luxury platform. From this engineering starting point, our testing and refinement processes combine empirical data and human experience, intuition, and insights acquired over more than a century to refine the motor car’s driving dynamics and character. In coordinating this orchestra of systems with precisely defined responses to driver inputs and road conditions, made possible by the latest software and hardware developments, Spectre delivers the Rolls-Royce experience in exceptionally high definition.”
A one-piece side panel, extending nearly four metres in length, stretches from the front of the A-pillar to behind the rear taillights making it the largest part ever produced by Rolls-Royce.
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Earlier this year, at a bespoke testing facility in Arjeplog, Sweden just 55 km from the Arctic Circle, the Spectre EV was tuned to behave and react like a Rolls-Royce. Over the past months, the marque’s test and development engineers shifted focus from extreme conditions to more formal scrutiny in a location that reflects the EV’s everyday use. This phase is split into two parts, beginning at the Autodrome de Miramas proving ground, located in the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône in Provence. A state-of-the-art test and development facility, incorporating more than 60 km of closed routes and 20 test track environments that provide several opportunities over its 1,198-acre footprint. These include irrigation units that create standing water, demanding handling circuits with tight corners and adverse cambers, as well as a heavily banked 5 km three-lane high-speed bowl, enabling Spectre to be tested at continuous high speeds.
The carmaker extensively tested the Rolls-Royce Spectre EV at the Autodrome de Miramas facility and on Côte d’Azur roads.
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That’s not all, the Spectre is unlike any Rolls-Royce. This is not only because of its fully electric powertrain but also its computing power and application of advanced data-processing technologies, claiming to be the most connected Rolls-Royce ever. Rolls-Royce also developed a new suspension technology called, ‘Magic Carpet Ride’, which is essentially an electronic roll stabilisation system that uses a suite of hardware components coupled with the satellite navigation system of the car to read road surface ahead allowing each wheel to act independently, stiffening the suspension, and thus preventing the car from a rocking motion that occurs when one side of a vehicle hits an undulation in the road.
Rolls-Royce also developed a new suspension technology called, ‘Magic Carpet Ride’.
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The company also shared details of the Spaceframe architecture which claims to provide exceptional torsional rigidity. The engineers at Goodwood achieved this by integrating the rigid structure of the battery itself into Spectre’s aluminum spaceframe architecture, improving the overall integrity of the assembly by 30 per cent.
The pillarless coach doors are nearly 1.5 metres in length, and are the longest in Rolls-Royce history.
Moreover, a one-piece side panel, extending nearly four metres in length, stretches from the front of the A-pillar to behind the rear taillights making it the largest part ever produced by Rolls-Royce. Likewise, the pillarless coach doors, which are nearly 1.5 metres in length, are the longest in Rolls-Royce history.
Rolls-Royce Spectre will feature a redesigned Spirit of Ecstasy with a more dynamic stance making her more aerodynamic.
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The upcoming Rolls-Royce Spectre isn’t going to be a Phantom replacement but instead is the spiritual successor. It will be a two-door, four-seat, grand touring coupe that will also feature a redesigned Spirit of Ecstasy with a more dynamic stance making her more aerodynamic. This iteration of the Spirit of Ecstasy will appear on all future models succeeding Spectre.