Rolls-Royce Spectre in second phase of 2.5 million km testing programme
30 Jul 2022|1,191 views
Rolls-Royce has certainly built its reputation for producing super luxurious cars which utilise stonking big V12 internal combustion engines. So what if Rolls-Royce started making their cars powered by batteries instead? Would it be sacrilege?
Regardless of what opinions you have of this subject, the company is in the midst of developing its first electric car, the Rolls-Royce Spectre.
According to the company, the new electrified Rolls-Royce is in keeping with the prophecy of Charles Rolls, founder of the Rolls Royce company, who claimed that "The electric car is perfectly noiseless and clean. There is no smell or vibration. They should become very useful when fixed charging stations can be arranged," after having driven an electric car. According to Rolls Royce, their new car is a fulfilment of this prophecy.
The Rolls-Royce Spectre has been in testing since September 2021, with a exceptionally demanding testing programme seeing the car going through 2.5 million kilometres, simulating on average more than 400 years of use for the Rolls-Royce.
And this testing regime for the Spectre going to continue in the French Riviera, with the engineers now focusing more on testing the car's suitability for everyday use. A total of 625,000km will also be driven on and around the French Cote d Azur as part of this new round of testing and development.
Being the first electric Rolls-Royce, the Spectre will be unlike any of its siblings that have come before it. This is due to not only to the fully electric powertrain, but also its high computing ability and application of advanced data processing technologies. It will be the most connected Rolls Royce ever with each of its components more intelligent than any other Rolls-Royce before.
Despite the highly advanced electronics, the car is not an exercise in computer science alone. The car requires a response to a myriad of possible scenarios, therefore requiring specialists to define and finesse appropriate mechanical reactions over the course of the Riviera Testing Programme.
Engineers will be developing a dedicated control for each of Spectre's 25,000 plus functions from variations of response depending on factors like weather, driver behaviour, vehicle status and road conditions.
Flagbearer system reads road surfaces ahead, helping the Spectre adjust its suspension to adapt to bumps ahead As is expected from a Rolls-Royce, you'll get impeccable ride quality. Rolls-Royce's engineers have come up with a new suspension technology which leverage on the car's high speed processing capabilities to manage roll. Data from the car's Flagbearer system will read the road surface ahead, and work with the navigation system to alert the Spectre to upcoming corners.
On straighter roads, the system can also automatically decouple the Spectre's anti-roll bars, allowing each wheel to act independently. This prevents the rocking motion that occurs when one side of a vehicle hits an undulation in the road. It also dramatically improves high-frequency imperfections in ride caused by smaller, more frequent shortcomings in the road surface.
The Spectre will also get exceptional rigidity, said to be improved by 30% over all existing Rolls-Royce motor cars. This has also been achieved by integrating the extremely rigid structure of the battery itself into Spectre's aluminium spaceframe architecture. The rigidity is also contributed by the aluminium structure which is reinforced with steel sections.
Not only does the new car achieve new highs in structural rigidity, the standards in aerodynamics have also been pushed. The new Spectre will be the most aerodynamic car from Rolls-Royce ever, with a drag coefficient of just 0.26.
With a further one million kilometres before the completion of development for Spectre, it will only be in the fourth quarter of 2023 that customers can take delivery of their radical new electric Rolls-Royce.
Regardless of what opinions you have of this subject, the company is in the midst of developing its first electric car, the Rolls-Royce Spectre.
According to the company, the new electrified Rolls-Royce is in keeping with the prophecy of Charles Rolls, founder of the Rolls Royce company, who claimed that "The electric car is perfectly noiseless and clean. There is no smell or vibration. They should become very useful when fixed charging stations can be arranged," after having driven an electric car. According to Rolls Royce, their new car is a fulfilment of this prophecy.
The Rolls-Royce Spectre has been in testing since September 2021, with a exceptionally demanding testing programme seeing the car going through 2.5 million kilometres, simulating on average more than 400 years of use for the Rolls-Royce.
And this testing regime for the Spectre going to continue in the French Riviera, with the engineers now focusing more on testing the car's suitability for everyday use. A total of 625,000km will also be driven on and around the French Cote d Azur as part of this new round of testing and development.
Being the first electric Rolls-Royce, the Spectre will be unlike any of its siblings that have come before it. This is due to not only to the fully electric powertrain, but also its high computing ability and application of advanced data processing technologies. It will be the most connected Rolls Royce ever with each of its components more intelligent than any other Rolls-Royce before.
Despite the highly advanced electronics, the car is not an exercise in computer science alone. The car requires a response to a myriad of possible scenarios, therefore requiring specialists to define and finesse appropriate mechanical reactions over the course of the Riviera Testing Programme.
Engineers will be developing a dedicated control for each of Spectre's 25,000 plus functions from variations of response depending on factors like weather, driver behaviour, vehicle status and road conditions.
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On straighter roads, the system can also automatically decouple the Spectre's anti-roll bars, allowing each wheel to act independently. This prevents the rocking motion that occurs when one side of a vehicle hits an undulation in the road. It also dramatically improves high-frequency imperfections in ride caused by smaller, more frequent shortcomings in the road surface.
The Spectre will also get exceptional rigidity, said to be improved by 30% over all existing Rolls-Royce motor cars. This has also been achieved by integrating the extremely rigid structure of the battery itself into Spectre's aluminium spaceframe architecture. The rigidity is also contributed by the aluminium structure which is reinforced with steel sections.
Not only does the new car achieve new highs in structural rigidity, the standards in aerodynamics have also been pushed. The new Spectre will be the most aerodynamic car from Rolls-Royce ever, with a drag coefficient of just 0.26.
With a further one million kilometres before the completion of development for Spectre, it will only be in the fourth quarter of 2023 that customers can take delivery of their radical new electric Rolls-Royce.
Rolls-Royce has certainly built its reputation for producing super luxurious cars which utilise stonking big V12 internal combustion engines. So what if Rolls-Royce started making their cars powered by batteries instead? Would it be sacrilege?
Regardless of what opinions you have of this subject, the company is in the midst of developing its first electric car, the Rolls-Royce Spectre.
According to the company, the new electrified Rolls-Royce is in keeping with the prophecy of Charles Rolls, founder of the Rolls Royce company, who claimed that "The electric car is perfectly noiseless and clean. There is no smell or vibration. They should become very useful when fixed charging stations can be arranged," after having driven an electric car. According to Rolls Royce, their new car is a fulfilment of this prophecy.
The Rolls-Royce Spectre has been in testing since September 2021, with a exceptionally demanding testing programme seeing the car going through 2.5 million kilometres, simulating on average more than 400 years of use for the Rolls-Royce.
And this testing regime for the Spectre going to continue in the French Riviera, with the engineers now focusing more on testing the car's suitability for everyday use. A total of 625,000km will also be driven on and around the French Cote d Azur as part of this new round of testing and development.
Being the first electric Rolls-Royce, the Spectre will be unlike any of its siblings that have come before it. This is due to not only to the fully electric powertrain, but also its high computing ability and application of advanced data processing technologies. It will be the most connected Rolls Royce ever with each of its components more intelligent than any other Rolls-Royce before.
Despite the highly advanced electronics, the car is not an exercise in computer science alone. The car requires a response to a myriad of possible scenarios, therefore requiring specialists to define and finesse appropriate mechanical reactions over the course of the Riviera Testing Programme.
Engineers will be developing a dedicated control for each of Spectre's 25,000 plus functions from variations of response depending on factors like weather, driver behaviour, vehicle status and road conditions.
Flagbearer system reads road surfaces ahead, helping the Spectre adjust its suspension to adapt to bumps ahead As is expected from a Rolls-Royce, you'll get impeccable ride quality. Rolls-Royce's engineers have come up with a new suspension technology which leverage on the car's high speed processing capabilities to manage roll. Data from the car's Flagbearer system will read the road surface ahead, and work with the navigation system to alert the Spectre to upcoming corners.
On straighter roads, the system can also automatically decouple the Spectre's anti-roll bars, allowing each wheel to act independently. This prevents the rocking motion that occurs when one side of a vehicle hits an undulation in the road. It also dramatically improves high-frequency imperfections in ride caused by smaller, more frequent shortcomings in the road surface.
The Spectre will also get exceptional rigidity, said to be improved by 30% over all existing Rolls-Royce motor cars. This has also been achieved by integrating the extremely rigid structure of the battery itself into Spectre's aluminium spaceframe architecture. The rigidity is also contributed by the aluminium structure which is reinforced with steel sections.
Not only does the new car achieve new highs in structural rigidity, the standards in aerodynamics have also been pushed. The new Spectre will be the most aerodynamic car from Rolls-Royce ever, with a drag coefficient of just 0.26.
With a further one million kilometres before the completion of development for Spectre, it will only be in the fourth quarter of 2023 that customers can take delivery of their radical new electric Rolls-Royce.
Regardless of what opinions you have of this subject, the company is in the midst of developing its first electric car, the Rolls-Royce Spectre.
According to the company, the new electrified Rolls-Royce is in keeping with the prophecy of Charles Rolls, founder of the Rolls Royce company, who claimed that "The electric car is perfectly noiseless and clean. There is no smell or vibration. They should become very useful when fixed charging stations can be arranged," after having driven an electric car. According to Rolls Royce, their new car is a fulfilment of this prophecy.
The Rolls-Royce Spectre has been in testing since September 2021, with a exceptionally demanding testing programme seeing the car going through 2.5 million kilometres, simulating on average more than 400 years of use for the Rolls-Royce.
And this testing regime for the Spectre going to continue in the French Riviera, with the engineers now focusing more on testing the car's suitability for everyday use. A total of 625,000km will also be driven on and around the French Cote d Azur as part of this new round of testing and development.
Being the first electric Rolls-Royce, the Spectre will be unlike any of its siblings that have come before it. This is due to not only to the fully electric powertrain, but also its high computing ability and application of advanced data processing technologies. It will be the most connected Rolls Royce ever with each of its components more intelligent than any other Rolls-Royce before.
Despite the highly advanced electronics, the car is not an exercise in computer science alone. The car requires a response to a myriad of possible scenarios, therefore requiring specialists to define and finesse appropriate mechanical reactions over the course of the Riviera Testing Programme.
Engineers will be developing a dedicated control for each of Spectre's 25,000 plus functions from variations of response depending on factors like weather, driver behaviour, vehicle status and road conditions.
![](https://i.i-sgcm.com/news/article_news/2022/27083_p1_s_5.jpg)
![](https://i.i-sgcm.com/images/spacer.gif)
On straighter roads, the system can also automatically decouple the Spectre's anti-roll bars, allowing each wheel to act independently. This prevents the rocking motion that occurs when one side of a vehicle hits an undulation in the road. It also dramatically improves high-frequency imperfections in ride caused by smaller, more frequent shortcomings in the road surface.
The Spectre will also get exceptional rigidity, said to be improved by 30% over all existing Rolls-Royce motor cars. This has also been achieved by integrating the extremely rigid structure of the battery itself into Spectre's aluminium spaceframe architecture. The rigidity is also contributed by the aluminium structure which is reinforced with steel sections.
Not only does the new car achieve new highs in structural rigidity, the standards in aerodynamics have also been pushed. The new Spectre will be the most aerodynamic car from Rolls-Royce ever, with a drag coefficient of just 0.26.
With a further one million kilometres before the completion of development for Spectre, it will only be in the fourth quarter of 2023 that customers can take delivery of their radical new electric Rolls-Royce.
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