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Meet the Electrified Rolls Royce Spectre Coupé

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“This is the start of a bold new chapter for our marque, our extraordinary clients and the luxury industry. For this reason, I believe Spectre is the most perfect product that Rolls-Royce has ever produced.”
Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

“The electric car is perfectly noiseless and clean. There is no smell or vibration. They should become very useful when fixed charging stations can be arranged.”
The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, Co-Founder, Rolls-Royce, 1900

 

Rolls-Royce has 2030 would see all of the luxury car maker’s models being fully-electric.

The fully electric Spectre allows craftspeople to create sparkling options like Starlight Doors and Illuminated Fascia, so that like existing Rolls Royces, future buyers can define their own wants and needs, to see them realised in the metal

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DESIGN

Rolls-Royce Spectre, the Ultra-Luxury Electric Super Coupé, is unique. The true 4 seater builds on the luxury motoring reputation by using cutting edge technology and design.

Designers drew inspiration from haute couture, modernist sculpture, nautical design, tailoring and contemporary art. Luxury yacht concepts are reflected in the application of taper to emotionalise silhouettes.

Spectre’s split headlights sit either side of the widest Rolls-Royce grille ever made. Despite no need for cooling, the vanes of the signature grille are smoother and have a flusher fit, to guide the air around the front surface.

The Spirit of Ecstasy figurine is the result of 830 hours of design including wind tunnel testing. The 0.25cd makes Spectre the slipperiest Rolls-Royce ever created.

Harkening back to the Phantom Coupé, Spectre has the same generous proportions and split headlight look. Spectre’s daylight running lights highlight the two-metre width, and have lower lamp clusters which look blackened until the lit.

The Spectre’s fastback recalls the previous coupé, giving it the same boat tail feel. The vertical tail lamps are colourless for neutrality, but can be individualised by buyers.

Spectre is the 1st production coupé to have 23-inch wheels in almost one hundred years.

Inside, Spectre may have Starlight Doors, with 4,796 softly lit ‘stars’. The coach doors can also optioned with wood Canadel Panelling, the name from the cove in the South of France where Sir Henry Royce and his design team spent their winters.

Spectre’s digital architecture has the rather imperious title of SPIRIT. presented in quintessential Rolls-Royce style. SPIRIT manages daily functions, and integrates with the Whispers application, allowing owners to control the car remotely.

ALL-ALUMINIUM Construction.
Following the 2003 Goodwood-era’s Phantom, built upon its own Bespoke architecture. The ‘Architecture of Luxury’ is a flexible all-aluminium spaceframe architecture, which can be used for electric drive, or existing models lke Phantom, Cullinan, Ghost, and the Coachbuild creations. The new fully-electric powertrain and Decentralised Intelligence could be considered Rolls-Royce 3.0, the all-electric era.

This flexibility allowed engineers, designers and craftspeople to focus on the quality and to build a Bespoke experience for its buyers.

There are other benefits too. Spectre has extruded aluminium sections with its battery built into the structure making it 30% stiffer than previous Rolls-Royce. The flexibility of the architecture has also allowed engineers to place the floor halfway between the sill structures rather than on top or underneath them. There is a conduit for wiring and climate control infrastructure between the battery and the floor, making for a smooth underfloor profile. It gives a low seating position and makes the 700kg battery perform the added role of sound deadening.

The DIGITAL World

Spectre is the most connected Rolls-Royce ever, using the Decentralised Intelligence processing capabilities.

Spectre’s extreme testing started at -40 degrees centigrade, 55km from the arctic circle in Arjeplog, Sweden. With the extreme cold at one end of the spectrum, Southern Africa’s 55 degrees centigrade provided all the heat a driver could ever experiences, without driving into a volcano.

To make sure is was suitable as a daily driver, 55% of testing was on the very roads that Spectres will be seen on. The French Riviera’s Côte d’Azur was used to test the Planar suspension system.

Planar suspension development uses driver inputs, road conditions, modern technology, to make Rolls-Royce’s ‘magic carpet ride’ even smoother.

High speed computing allows the Planar system to decouple the car’s anti-roll bars allowing each wheel to act independently, preventing the rocking motion that occurs when one side of a vehicle hits an undulation in the road.

When Spectre senses a corner is imminent, the Planar system recouples the components and stiffens the dampers, using the four-wheel steering system keep the handling tidy. 18 sensors tailor steering, braking, power delivery and suspension to keep Spectre stable.

Specifications:

While the exact power, acceleration and range figures defined, Spectre is expected to have a range of 320 miles/520 kilometres WLTP, with offer 430kW/900Nm. The anticipated 0-60mph is 4.4 seconds (0-100km/h in 4.5 seconds).

After a few final adjustments, we should see the launch of Spectre in Q4 of 2023.

SPECTRE DIMENSIONS:
Number of doors / seats         2 doors / 4 seats

Vehicle length                         5453 mm / 214.685 in

Vehicle width                           2080 mm / 81.889 in

Vehicle height (unladen)          1559 mm / 61.377 in

Wheelbase                              3210 mm / 126.378 in

Turning circle                           12.7 m

Kerb weight                             2975 kg

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