Rolls-Royce’s electric coupé, Spectre has now finished testing, the equivalent of 400 years of use. 2.5-million-kilometres of testing is the most a Rolls Royce has been asked to do in the company’s 119-year history. Spectre experienced -40°C to +50°C in Arctic snow, ice to deserts, high mountain passes, and many kilometres of city driving.

Spectre’s 141,200 digital sender-receiver relations, and 25,000 performance-related functions, provided data used during testing. More than 50,000 hours of work gave an end result of better acoustic performance, cornering and handling, charging time, electric range and torque delivery.

LIFESTYLE ANALYSIS
As Rolls-Royce passed in to literary lexicon, it came to mean the apex, the very best, and the most luxurious.

Spectre should continue the super-luxury experience, their developers put it through the Lifestyle Analysis process created by Goodwood engineers. The programme considers daily buyer use on specific roads in places like: Sanya on Hainan Island, China; Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; Napa Valley in California; and London, where Rolls Royce’s have been seen since the creation.

Four-wheel steering gives manoeuvrability benefits in limited space. As only a super-posh car maker can, Rolls Royce did extensive testing in Mayfair, Kensington and Chelsea, making sure the rear axle steering could cope with residential streets and luxury retail locations where current and future owners will live.

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Perhaps a little less necessary was the test to see if a normal telephone conversation could be taken inside the car while next to a helicopter. Further tests included the quality of the motor car’s in-car internet connection when amongst tall buildings, and ease of loading such things as long garment bags containing essentials like formal evening suiting and gowns.

Engineers added gyroscopic and G-force sensors to ensure that the electric doors open and close the same way even on steep hills and at off angles.

A corner frequently used for steering testing to at Goodwood, has been renamed ‘Spectre Corner.’ It was here where Spectre finshed 2.5-million-kilometre testing, ready deliveries, which to commence in the fourth quarter of this year.

Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars “Spectre is the Rolls-Royce that changes everything. It symbolises not only the marque’s technological leadership of the super-luxury sector, but that a bold electric future, first prophesised in 1900 by our founder, Charles Rolls, is now upon us. To attain its final, perfect form, Spectre has passed through our engineers’ ‘finishing school’ – and in so doing, completed the most demanding testing regime in our brand’s history, spanning 2.5 million kilometres and every conceivable extreme of temperature, weather, road type and surface condition. Equally importantly, it has also undergone our extensive Lifestyle Analysis testing. Applying our detailed knowledge of our clients’ tastes, habits and requirements, this unique evaluation process ensures Spectre delivers an authentic, personal and effortless super-luxury experience, as well as true engineering substance, specific to the most demanding consumer group in the world – the Rolls-Royce client.”

 

Dr. Mihiar Ayoubi, Director of Engineering, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars “It is a highlight of my professional life to have developed Rolls-Royce Spectre, the car which propels Rolls-Royce into its bold, electric future. Such a remarkable car requires a remarkable testing programme and I am enormously proud that Spectre has now completed what has been the most arduous schedule ever conceived for a Rolls-Royce motor car. Indeed, it is where automotive manufacturers finish testing that so much of our work begins in fulfilling the requirements of the super-luxury consumer. This has been an extraordinary undertaking from a team of dedicated and highly skilled engineers that span both traditional technical disciplines and exciting emerging technologies. Rolls-Royce Spectre brings the future of this great marque into the present.”

 

SPECTRE CO2 EMISSIONS AND CONSUMPTION FIGURES
WLTP:
Power consumption: 2.9 mi/kWh. / 21.5 kWh/100km*
Electric range: 323 miles / 520 kilometres*
CO2 emissions 0 g/km

*Preliminary data not yet confirmed, subject to change.