Rolls-Royce is making quite a turnaround. Until now, the brand has been quite reluctant to develop EVs, but is suddenly flexing its muscles in the electrical field. We can show you the first pictures of the Specter, the first but certainly not the last fully electric Rolls-Royce.
Until now, Rolls-Royce had little interest in fully electric cars. The brand said it would be launching its first electric model sometime “this decade,” but hasn’t sounded particularly enthusiastic about EVs until now. Rolls-Royce is now coming back to that.
Rolls-Royce indicates that it will only sell electric cars from 2030. In more than eight years you will not find a single Rolls-Royce with a combustion engine at the Rolls points of sale. The British currently do not supply any EV and does not even have an electrified powertrain on the menu. That will change in two years. Then the brand will launch its first electric model ever on the market: the Specter.
Rolls Royce Spectre
Make no mistake about the car in these pictures. Although it seems as if Rolls-Royce has provided a Wraith with a screaming print for these photos, according to the English it is really a completely new model. The Specter in the photos is not a prototype either, but according to Rolls-Royce “the real thing”. The Rolls-Royce Specter will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2023 and, like the current Phantom and Ghost, will be on a version of Rolls-Royce’s own platform. The Specter is therefore not a ‘disguised BMW’, as critics sometimes labeled the previous Ghost.
Rolls Royce 103 EX Concept (2016)
With the model name Specter, which means something like a ghost or apparition, Rolls-Royce follows the ‘witty’ naming strategy that the brand now also applies to the Phantom, Ghost and Wraith.
Although the Specter will be the first electric Rolls-Royce to go into production, the brand has experimented with EVs before. In 2011, Rolls-Royce already showed a fully electric variant of the then current Phantom with the 102 EX, which, however, never went into production. More recently, Rolls-Royce showed the 103 EX, a very futuristic electric-powered study model that was launched in 2016 and from which Rolls’ first EV may derive design elements.
In the video below, none other than Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten-Müller Ötvös explains it in great detail:
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