2023 Rolls-Royce Spectre-Price and Details

The all-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre completes its winter tests 55 km from the Arctic Circle, continuing its consistent progress towards series production.

For Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chairman, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the e-vehicle is "a symbol of our bright, bold electric future and represents a seismic shift in our powertrain technology." Reason enough to launch a test programme "as significant and historic as Spectre itself." The Spectre will have covered 2.5 million kilometres before it hits the road in series production.

Luxury manufacturer Rolls-Royce has previously confirmed it is working on its electric car. For the model, the BMW brand had registered the name "Silent Shadow" with the German patent office. But the brand's first electric car does not bear this name, instead, it goes by the name Spectre and will hit the roads at the end of 2023. From 2030 onwards, the brand wants to produce only electric cars.

The manufacturer also has high expectations for the Rolls-Royce Spectre in winter testing. Temperatures at the Bespoke facility used by the brand in Arjeplog, Sweden, just 55 km from the Arctic Circle, drop to -26 degrees Celsius and are further cooled to -40 degrees Celsius. Under these conditions, Rolls-Royce can experience how good decisions were made, for example, in the selection of materials for key fittings, through the density of door rubbers, bushing joints and fastening materials, to the properties of adhesives. The performance of these materials can change significantly in extreme temperatures - as can the efficiency of the vehicle's heating, ventilation, air conditioning and cooling systems.

Technical data is sometimes scarce when it comes to the Spectre. What is clear, however, is that the Spectre is the most connected Rolls-Royce ever, and every component in it is smarter than in any previous Rolls-Royce. For example, Rolls-Royce's electric car has 141,200 transmitter-receiver relationships and has more than 1,000 functions with more than 25,000 sub-functions. In comparison, the Phantom has 51,000 transmitter-receiver relationships, 456 functions and 647 sub-functions. The dramatically increased intelligence of Spectre's electronic and electrical powertrain architecture allows for the free and direct exchange of detailed information between these 1,000+ functions without central processing.