![]() ![]() Wunder confirms that they could have extracted considerably more power from the batteries. It’s not a sports car, clearly, but it does everything with an imperious, overwhelming sense of confidence. The Spectre gathers momentum with impressive if not scalp-tickling alacrity, and asks the driver to make only a touch more effort when it comes to fast corners than a Rolls Ghost. Is a vehicle weighing north of 3 metric tons with a driver onboard truly sustainable? Rolls’ technical boss Mihiar Ayoubi agrees that it’s a challenge, and says improvements in battery tech-roll on solid state-will help tilt the balance in favor of lighter cars.įor now, the team has worked hard delivering a car that stops, steers, and handles in a way that defies its mass. This is a fearsomely heavy car, as all powerful EVs are. In a life enviably awash in luxury, being able to flit between the Ferrari, Range Rover, or electric Rolls-Royce is merely one of the day’s less taxing decisions. Because, as Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös tells WIRED, the average Rolls client has seven cars in their garage. That remains an issue 120 years later, depending on where in the world you happen to be, but it’s one that most likely won’t trouble the owner of a new Rolls-Royce Spectre. To be clear, the lead acid batteries in those days were huge and not especially efficient, and Rolls had his doubts about the infrastructure that would be required. Yep, back in 1900, electrification was very much on the cards, and one half of what would become the world’s pioneering automotive luxury brand was fully on board with the idea-until the oil business did its nefarious thing and steered the new-fangled motor industry toward petrol. A few years before Charles Rolls met his future business partner, Henry Royce, he went on the record about the potential of electric propulsion. ![]()
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