CarBuyer Singapore gets an exclusive look into Rolls-Royce’s electric transformation through an experience with the brand’s first EV, the Spectre coupe."It has to be a Rolls-Royce first, and an electric vehicle second. That means no compromises anywhere, in quality, in driving, in design…everything."
It's obvious, but far from simple. Firstly because the car will be without the traditional heart of a Rolls-Royce, a V12 engine. And secondly because with Spectre, Ötvös and his team don't seem content in just making a Rolls-Royce that happens to be an EV, but a Rolls-Royce that brings the brand into a new age with electronically-charged 'high definition' driving.
It will be a coupe, the same size as the Phantom Coupe . Yes, it's a coupe and not a limo because the company is aiming for a bigger impact, something 'emotional and exciting' in Müller-Ötvös' words. Rolls-Royce makes its own fashion, as the palace-on-wheels Phantom shows, but in this it has to bend to physics, because superior aerodynamics are a key factor for EV range. There's no mention of size or range, as we've said, but the company did reveal that it will use the largest capacity battery available from the BMW Group.
From the passenger seat, visibility is good, despite the raked A-pillars and Mr Wunder has no trouble threading Spectre through the narrow streets of the old town of St Remy de Provence, and later out onto the winding B-roads. Rolls-Royce has thrown every tech trick in the book to get Spectre to another level, chassis wise : the latest air suspension, active roll cancellation, satellite navigation for corner prediction, and a new system dubbed Flagbearer, which reads the road and tarmac conditions. For example, the system will decouple the anti-roll bars on the straight to prevent side-to-side rocking, but do the opposite for corners.
No mean feat when the car is supposed to run 23-inch wheels as standard - the largest size to come on a factory car in nearly a century. Another thing to note was that this handling circuit was made to replicate high-speed running on degraded tarmac, the worn down type where the tar has receded to leave small rocks jutting out.
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