The Rolls-Royce Specter was the automaker’s first electric car to go into production, and it proves that even gilded luxury cars aren’t inefficient.
Because despite following Rolls’ tradition of excess – and it’s a two-door sedan at over 214 inches in length – the performance is actually pretty decent, at 2.9 mi/kwh in our WLTP test cycle. Europe. For context, GMC Hummer EV is in the range of 1.5 mi/kwh, although its size excludes it from official ratings.
Due to begin deliveries in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Specter will also have an estimated 260-mile range during the EPA test cycle, when fitted with 23-inch wheels. However, Rolls doesn’t reveal the size of the battery pack, only saying it weighs 1,543 lbs – almost a quarter of the Specter’s 6,559 lb. Rolls notes that it offers a lot of jarring sound.
Rolls-Royce Specter
That’s an incredible weight for a two-door, four-seat coupe, especially considering the Specter uses an aluminum spaceframe architecture. This is a tweaked version of the one used by current petrol models from Rolls, but the automaker claims a 30 percent increase in stiffness thanks to the use of the package as a structural element and some reinforcement. steel, may not help with weight reduction.
The drag coefficient of 0.25 makes the Specter the most aerodynamic Rolls production car ever. The number isn’t quite as low as the Lucid Air, Mercedes-Benz EQS and Tesla Model S, which range in value from 0.20 to 0.21, but Rolls also go with a more traditional silhouette, with a strong resemblance to the the Wraith coupe that the Specter essentially replaced. It even retains that coupe’s suicide door.
The dual-motor four-wheel drive system produces an estimated 577 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque. Rolls estimates this will allow 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds, while top speed is limited to 150 mph.
Rolls-Royce Specter
However, the Specter is more about comfort than performance. Rolls has solved that problem with so-called Planar suspension, an electronic roll stabilization system that can draw data from more than 18 sensors to read the road surface and monitor vehicle condition, as well as information from the vehicle. navigation system, to adjust the suspension.
On straight roads, the system can separate the anti-roll bars, allowing each wheel to move independently for a smoother ride, eliminating the vibrating or wobbling motion that often occurs when only the wheel is at one side collided, according to Rolls. Using the navigation system to predict bends, the system can re-pair the anti-roll bars, stiffen the dampers, and work with the four-wheel steering for dramatic cornering.
Rolls-Royce Specter
Rolls-Royce Specter
Rolls-Royce Specter
The interior is typical of Rolls-Royce, with premium materials and high personalization potential. Like other Rolls models, the front end can be fitted with illuminated “stars”, but in the Specter they now extend to the door panels as well.
The Specter has been around for a long time. Rolls first hinted at an electric car about a decade ago with Prototype Phantom 102EX. That project went nowhere and was replaced with a plan for plug-in hybrid. But after that in 2016The company seems to have returned to the electric vision.
Rolls-Royce is now will be fully electric by 2030 under the ambitious electrification plan of parent company BMW. These are some of the notable collaborations with the aviation company Rolls-Royce, from which the car business was spun off in 1973. electrification test.
