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is not an electric version of anything-it was fully engineered from the beginning to be an electric car.” “The performance perfectly accentuates the Rolls-Royce ride experience. “We have gone straight to all-electric,” says Rolls-Royce spokesman Gerry Spahn. The company will not use plug-in hybrid (PHEV) engines as a transitional technology.

Space-frame construction is used on race cars as well as BMW iX EV SUV and the Ford GT supercar.Įlectrification is Rolls-Royce 3.0.

#ELECTRIC ROLL ROYCE SERIES#

A spaceframe is a series of 3D, interlocking triangular struts or tubes that create a strong vehicle with less weight the body panels are mostly cosmetic. The aluminum spaceframe used to build the framework of the Phantom, Cullinan, Ghost and Coachbuild (highly customized) cars, was 2.0. The first Goodwood vehicle, the Phantom, was Rolls-Royce 1.0. Rolls isn’t giving up on gasoline yet, but with the electric car it’s envisioning “Rolls-Royce 3.0.” While the Rolls-Royce name dates to 1906, the current Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited began producing cars out of Goodwood, West Sussex in 2003. The company will be all-electric by 2030. Rolls-Royce is going straight from gasoline-engine vehicles to full-electric power by 2030 without using plug-in hybrid power as a bridge technology. For comparison, the Cadillac Escalade is 212 inches long. (It’s the company’s first car with 23-inch wheels since 1926.) This suggests Spectre will be a big vehicle the Phantom Coupé was 221 inches long, a foot longer than the Rolls-Royce Wraith, another coupe. The Spectre also sports the Phantom Coupé’s split headlights. The company sees the Spectre as a 2024 “electric super coupé,” and a successor to the 2008-2016 Phantom Coupé, of which just 800 were built.

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