The apparent query: Why ought to anybody care a few half 1,000,000 greenback extremely luxe EV?

Most clearly, there is no such thing as a facet of the auto trade that’s immune from the pattern towards electrical. It’s quicker, smoother, extra linear in acceleration, and has discovered its method into every little thing from pickup vehicles to luxo-barges.

Second, the entire “money-is-no-object” RR know-how will finally discover its method into the remainder of the fleet. Rolls Royce tech is owned by BMW; the tech was co-developed together with the underpinnings of the i7 collection. So along with sharing growth prices, we should always count on to see this know-how migrate into every little thing from the 2-series (and smaller vehicles in Europe) in addition to the Mini and the complete line of BMW bikes.

The small print of the Spectre are much less spectacular than the truth that such a beast even exists:

577 horsepower
664 pound-feet of torque
6,558 kilos, 17.9 ft lengthy
Zero to 60 mph is 4.4 seconds; high pace is 155 mph
260 miles per cost
Cost from 10% to 80% full in 34 minutes (fast-charger)
$500,000 coupe

Lest anybody harbors any illusions in regards to the impression of EVs, my pal Hannah Elliot, the primary individual outdoors of RR to drive the Spectre, put it this manner:

“I discovered the estimated $500,000 coupe to be smoother, extra silent and extra highly effective–to not point out higher trying–than any of its V-12 predecessors. The 118-year-old model has tied its mythology to its famously big combustion engines, however this primary step into electrification is daring and surefooted. The firstborn in a deliberate line of electrical automobiles, this two-door titan saturates its passengers in indulgence. It alerts a easy transition forward.”

As a lot because it pains a V8 petrol-head like myself, the truth is electrical is just a superior know-how. Full cease.

Positive, it doesn’t have the roar, the odor, even the power to make mods and upgrades (but) that inside combustion engines had. Fashionable ICE vehicles within the ECU period not have the power to tinker that earlier vehicles had anyway.

Look, the inner combustion engine lasted over a century. It was an amazing run, however it’s coming to an finish.

Or extra precisely, it’s over.

I’ve a storage stuffed with antiques, and that’s simply positive. The truth that they’re only some years previous shouldn’t confuse anybody. They may as nicely be a 100-year-old oak eating room desk, or another collectible bauble, they’re antiques nonetheless.

Supply: Rolls-Royce; See additionally Bloomberg, Automobile and Driver