Designed and engineered to be a Rolls-Royce first, and an electric car second, Spectre marks the beginning of a new era for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. To celebrate its China premiere, Spectre is presented at Auto Shanghai 2023.
Spectre is currently undergoing extreme hot weather tests in two locations in South Africa. Rolls-Royce’s genre-defining all-electric super coupé, has now covered almost two million kilometres as it completes the third phase of the most rigorous testing programme ever devised in the marque’s 118-year history.
In 1900, Rolls-Royce co-founder, Charles Rolls, prophesised an electric future for the motor car. Having acquired an electric vehicle named The Columbia Electric Carriage, he foresaw its suitability as a clean, noiseless alternative to the internal combustion engine – providing there was sufficient infrastructure to support it. Today, more than 120 years later, the time has come for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars to fulfil the prophecy of its founding father.
Choosing a name for a new Rolls-Royce motor car is a crucial, highly considered and painstaking process, in which the marque's unique heritage plays a central part.
Over the past months, the marque’s test and development engineers have shifted their focus from the extreme conditions of Arjeplog, Sweden, to more formal scrutiny in a location that reflects the Spectre's everyday use: the French Riviera.
All-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre concludes winter testing 55km from Arctic Circle. A new Rolls-Royce motor car always begins its life in winter. Temperatures at the Bespoke facility used by the marque, located in Arjeplog, Sweden, just 55km from the arctic circle, drop to -26 degrees centigrade and are further cooled to -40 degrees centigrade.
Rolls-Royce has reimagined its iconic Spirit of Ecstasy figurine to grace the bonnet of its new all-electric motor car, Spectre, 111 years to the day the Spirit of Ecstasy was first registered as intellectual property of Rolls-Royce on 6th February 1911.
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MUSE, THE ROLLS-ROYCE ART PROGRAMME COMMENCES FIRST SPIRIT OF ECSTASY CHALLENGE
THE HONOURABLE CHARLES STEWART ROLLS (27 AUGUST 1877 – 12 JULY 1910)
ROLLS-ROYCE MOTOR CARS CULLINAN RECREATION MODULE
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ROLLS-ROYCE MOTOR CARS PHANTOM PRIVACY SUITE