Little bit of luxury for Rolls-Royce electric Spectre

After testing for 2.5m kilometres, it was time for the Rolls-Royce Spectre’s Lifestyle Analysis. Photos: Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce’s all-electric Spectre has now concluded the most demanding development process of any motor car in the marque’s 119-year history. 

Spectre has endured extremes of temperatures in conditions spanning from Arctic snow and ice to deserts, high mountain passes and the world’s megacities. Its demanding 2.5-million-kilometre testing programme has simulated more than 400 years of use.

The test programme concludes with the marque’s unique Lifestyle Analysis test, which ensures Spectre delivers an authentic, personal and effortless super-luxury experience specific to the most demanding consumer group in the world – the Rolls-Royce client. 

This involved Rolls-Royce engineers testing Spectre on specific roads, observing its performance in the boroughs of Mayfair and Kensington and Chelsea, London to ensure the car performs to the static needs of its clients and their lifestyles.

The Spectre was driven around the narrow streets of London.

Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, said that the “Spectre is the Rolls-Royce that changes everything”.

“It symbolises not only the marque’s technological leadership of the super-luxury sector but that a bold electric future, first prophesied in 1900 by our founder, Charles Rolls, is now upon us,” he said.

“It has also undergone our extensive Lifestyle Analysis testing. Applying our detailed knowledge of our clients' tastes, habits and requirements, this unique evaluation process ensures Spectre delivers an authentic, personal and effortless super-luxury experience, as well as true engineering substance, specific to the most demanding consumer group in the world – the Rolls-Royce client." 

The Spectre has undergone the most testing in the luxury brand’s 119 year history.

the Lifestyle Analysis phase of testing is in place to highlight necessary adjustments to the motor car's specification or performance. For example, after testing the power-assisted doors on an exceptionally steep hill – replicating the steep driveways common to the hills of Los Angeles, California – engineers added gyroscopic and G-force sensors to ensure that doors open and close at the same effortless speed, regardless of longitudinal or transverse parking angles. 

Additionally, one corner was used so frequently to test the steering precision of Spectre, which the marque’s engineers believe is the most exact in Rolls-Royce history, they have named a switchback within the environs of Rolls-Royce’s home in Goodwood, West Sussex, ‘Spectre Corner.’ 

Fittingly, it was during Lifestyle Analysis testing in London, the capital of Rolls-Royce’s home market, that Spectre completed its 2.5-million-kilometre odyssey in preparation for client deliveries, which will commence in the fourth quarter of this year. 

The Spectre will be available for customer delivery at the end of this year.