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THE EXTRAORDINARY UNDERTAKING IS COMPLETE: ROLLS-ROYCE SPECTRE CONCLUDES GLOBAL TESTING PROGRAMME WITH METICULOUS LIFESTYLE ANALYSIS
09.06.2023 Press Release
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars’ genre-defining all-electric super coupé, Spectre, has now concluded an historic and unique undertaking: a 2.5-million-kilometre testing programme simulating more than 400 years of use.
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- Rolls-Royce concludes 2.5-million-kilometre testing programme of all-electric Spectre
- Motor car has been exposed to temperature extremes of -40°C to +50°C
- More than 50,000 total driven hours expended testing the motor car
- Test programme concludes with Lifestyle Analysis testing in marque’s home market
- Programme created to respond directly to Rolls-Royce client lifestyles
“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.”
Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, 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.”
Dr. Mihiar Ayoubi, Director of Engineering, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars’ genre-defining all-electric
super coupé, Spectre, has now concluded an historic and unique
undertaking: a 2.5-million-kilometre testing programme simulating more
than 400 years of use. In the most demanding development process in
the marque’s 119-year history, Spectre has endured temperatures
ranging from -40°C to +50°C, and in conditions spanning from Arctic
snow and ice to deserts, high mountain passes and the world’s megacities.
En route, every one of Spectre’s 141,200 digital sender-receiver
relations and 25,000 performance-related functions has been minutely
observed, analysed and tuned by Rolls-Royce engineers, a process
representing over 50,000 collective driven hours of highly skilled
work. This has resulted in thousands of iterative improvements in
everything from Spectre’s acoustic performance, composure under
cornering and steering precision to its charge time, electric range
and torque delivery; each small in itself, but with an immense overall
cumulative effect on the client experience.
LIFESTYLE ANALYSIS
As a Rolls-Royce, Spectre must be more than just an
engineering tour de force – it must also offer clients an
authentic super-luxury experience. It has therefore also been
subjected to the marque's unique Lifestyle Analysis process, which has
informed the development of every new product emanating from the
marque’s home in its Goodwood era. This additional testing programme
goes far beyond standard automotive assessments to encompass how
clients will use the motor car in their daily lives.
Lifestyle Analysis is based on the marque's detailed knowledge
and understanding of the super-luxury consumer, and continuous
intelligence-gathering across the luxury sector. It enables engineers
to anticipate the very particular demands likely to be placed on a new
Rolls-Royce and ensure that final engineered and fashioned experience
incorporates appropriate features and responses.
Using this knowledge, engineers have considered a range of
variables of particular relevance to Rolls-Royce clients. For example,
they have examined how Spectre’s drivetrain performs on specific roads
in and around the world’s most exclusive enclaves, including: Sanya on
Hainan Island, China; Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; Napa Valley
in California; and London, in the marque’s home market.
This testing is not limited to performance under highway speeds.
Specific city centre destinations are also used to ensure that
features such as four-wheel steering offer the requisite
manoeuvrability benefits to access areas roads and property approaches
with limited space. Indeed, testing in and around the boroughs of
Mayfair and Kensington and Chelsea, London, ensured the appropriate
rear axle steering to approach key residential streets and luxury
retail locations.
Similarly, given the environments Spectre will be placed in
worldwide, a large number of static testing procedures are undertaken
that address key client concerns. These include if it is possible to
hold a normal telephone conversation inside the motor car while it is
parked alongside a waiting helicopter, the strength of the motor car’s
in-car internet connection between specific skyscrapers, and ease of
access when placing specific objects inside the motor car – the long
garment bags used to protect formal evening suiting and gowns.
As with the technical road testing, the Lifestyle Analysis phase
of testing is in place to highlight necessary adjustments to the motor
car's specification or performance. For example, after testing the
power-assisted doors on an exceptionally steep hill – replicating the
steep driveways common to the hills of Los Angeles, California –
engineers added gyroscopic and G-force sensors to ensure that doors
open and close at the same effortless speed, regardless of
longitudinal or transverse parking angles.
Additionally, one corner was used so frequently to test the
steering precision of Spectre, which the marque’s engineers believe is
the most exact in Rolls-Royce history, they have named a switchback
within the environs of Rolls-Royce’s home in Goodwood, West Sussex,
‘Spectre Corner.’
Fittingly, it was during Lifestyle Analysis testing in London,
the capital of Rolls-Royce’s home market, that Spectre completed its
2.5-million-kilometre odyssey in preparation for client deliveries,
which will commence in the fourth quarter of this year.
CO2 EMISSIONS & CONSUMPTION.
SPECTRE
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.
- Official data on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, power consumption and electric range were determined in accordance with the mandatory measurement procedure and comply with Regulation (EU) 715/2007 valid at the time of type approval.
- WLTP information takes into account any special equipment in ranges. For vehicles that have been type-tested since January 1st, 2021, the official information no longer exists according to the NEDC, but only according to the WLTP. For more information on the WLTP and NEDC measurement procedures, see WLTP: new times, new rules.
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