- The first electric vehicle of Rolls Royce A up to 659 hp for short gusts
- Chassis, steering and suspension have been revised for greater control
- Color “Vapor Violet” inspired by the Neons of the Culture of the Club of the 1980s
If there was never a combustion motor car that was started for a transition to electrification, it would be a Rolls-Royce. Large, floating and almost silent when sealed inside the Cocooned cabin, the brand has found the EV transition easier than the others.
In addition, with an increasingly young audience, supported by sales in China and elsewhere, the British brand was able to play on its image, with black badge products representing a more aggressive and warned approach to traditional luxury – as if The brand entered backwards with the cooling of the SKEPTA at the back.
It therefore seems natural that Rolls-Royce applied this reflection on the black badge of the black spectrum, its first entirely electric model. The submarque has been surprisingly popular among buyers, the company declaring that the standard specter was “the most requested Rolls-Royce model in Europe last year”, according to Inside EV.
Black Badge specter takes things from a notch, with an illuminated pantheon grille, a new purple color of steam inspired by the neons of the club’s club in the 80s and the 1990s and the illuminated black badge platforms.
Chrome was abandoned in favor of darker shades, with a painted black hood available for those who want to stand out further. The new aluminum wheel design forged with five 23 -inch rays can be made in black, while a technical carbon finish inside completes the look.
Perhaps more importantly, the company has considered it capable of increasing the output power to 485 kW (659 hp) when drivers press a new Infinity button on the steering wheel.
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The chassis, the management and the depreciation of the suspension have also been reworked to help improve vehicle dynamics, increase body control and reduce the “squat” under acceleration or deceleration.
A good thing too, because there is also a game on launch control, nicknamed the Spirited mode, which propels the car from 0 to 60 mph in just 4.1 seconds (against the 4.4 seconds of the standard spectrum), Thanks to a burst of 1075 Nm, it is temporarily available.
In a real style of chatter, the British brand says that the new gusts of extreme power are a tribute to the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, found in the supermarine Spitfire, which would allow the pilots to obtain an additional power explosion by pushing a switch on the quadrant accelerator. Tally Ho!
Naturally, there is no word on the price, as it is the meaning with all the Rolls-Royce models, but the company thinks that the Black Badge edition will be popular.
He claims that the demand of early customers prompted the creation of a clandestine fleet of black badge spectra, so it was just to offer it more officially.
Analysis: electric vehicles inaugurate a new luxury era
Rolls-Royce remains on the scale of sales figures, choosing to preserve the anonymity of its ultra-rich customers. That said, it seems that the company finds the transition to electrification much easier than many other car manufacturers that operate on the luxury market.
The support and know-how of the BMW group have clearly helped, which offered a white label version of its IDRIVE infotainment system (among others) to propel the brand’s digital offer in the 21st century.
Apparently, as most Rolls-Royce owners do not have to worry about treating charging cables, the relatively leaning maximum load speed of the 195 kW spectrum of the massive 120 kWh battery does not seem to be a problem neither. The probability is that they have someone else who takes care of this kind of thing.
Although the combustion engine under the hood of a Rolls-Royce has always been an engineering marvel, it did not necessarily come to define vehicles, which have become renowned for one of the most floating luxurious rides anything on sale.
The addition of electric motors and an ultra -large battery only added this feeling of opulence when turning exquisite furnished rear seats – or when you choose.
In addition, with a younger and more aware demography of customers, the attraction of a less polluting and more avant-garde Rolls-Royce seems to bear fruit.
