The Spectre comes at around the same time as BMW – which owns Rolls-Royce Motor Cars (but not the aero division) – releases its own EV flagship, the i7 limousine. The weight is equally extreme at 2975 kilograms. The Spectre’s overall length is 5453 millimetres, about 185 mm longer than Wraith, though the silhouettes of the two cars are broadly similar. The Spectre is described as the successor to the discontinued Phantom coupé, rather than the Wraith (introduced in 2013 and based on the slightly smaller Ghost model). By 2030, it will have transformed its whole line-up from huge V12 petrol engines to pure battery power.

Rolls-Royce announced last year that each new model would be fully electric. “This is a step-stone in the history of Rolls-Royce motor cars … So our intention also was not to modify an existing combustion car into an electric car, definitely not. Nonetheless, Müller-Ötvös says the brand’s first EV is quite intentionally a coupé. That effort was a limousine, and 11 years later the SUV is the biggest selling body type in this upper-luxury category. The driving range between charges was considered too low, and the recharging speeds too slow.

It was such compromises that killed off a Rolls-Royce EV concept shown as long ago as 2011. “So, what you feel, touch, see, the materials we used … the way it drives, it’s a true Rolls-Royce … we haven’t compromised on that experience for very good reasons.” “It’s a Rolls-Royce first and an electric car second,” Torsten Müller-Ötvös, chief executive of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars tells Life & Leisure. This new high-point for the luxury EV market will likely cost $800,000-plus when it goes on sale here late next year. Rolls-Royce has taken the covers off its first electric production car, a spectacular two-door called Spectre.

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