Rolls-Royce's First Electric Car The Specter Is Coming

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced today in a historic announcement that the road test of its first all-electric car is imminent.

Powered by Rolls-Royce's own space frame architecture, the car will hit the market in Q4 2023. Global tests, which will simulate 400 years of use, will cover 2.5 million kilometers. In addition, by 2030, all Rolls-Royce products will be fully electric. The luxury automaker will no longer produce any internal combustion engine cars.

Torsten Müller-Ötvös, CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, said: “Today is the most important day in the history of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars since May 4, 1904. At that time, our founding fathers, Charles Rolls and Sir Henry Royce, met for the first time and agreed that they were doing 'the best'. Using the most advanced technology available to them at the time, and applying their extraordinary engineering minds, these two pioneers set an entirely new criterion of distinction, elevating the early combustion engine cars from the noisy, distracting, and primitive means of transport. The cars they created offered the world a true luxury experience and secured the ultimate peak position for Rolls-Royce, which it continues to occupy undisputedly to this day.

Müller-Ötvös also said: “117 years later, I am proud to announce that today Rolls-Royce will begin its on-road testing program for an extraordinary new product that will elevate the global all-electric car revolution and create the first and best supercar. This is not a prototype. That's the truth, it's going to be openly tested." said.