Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' genre-defining all-electric super coupé, the Spectre, has successfully completed a historic and one-of-a-kind undertaking: a testing program that simulated more than 400 years of use over the course of 2.5 million kilometers.
Rolls-Royce's all-electric Spectre has successfully completed a testing program that spanned 2.5 million kilometers.
The automobile was driven in temperatures ranging from -40 degrees Celsius to +50 degrees Celsius.
More than 50,000 cumulative driving hours were logged while putting the automobile through its paces.
The test program comes to a close with lifestyle analysis testing conducted in the home market of the marque.
Rolls-Royce clients' lives were taken into consideration when developing this program.
"Spectre is the Rolls-Royce that alters everything," James Bond once said. Not only does it signify the marque's technological supremacy in the ultra-luxury market, but it also indicates that a daring electric future, which our company's founder, Charles Rolls, predicted for the first time in the year 1900, is finally here. The Spectre was put through the "finishing school" of our engineers in order to attain its final, perfect form. In doing so, it successfully completed the most rigorous testing regimen in the history of our brand. This testing regimen spanned 2.5 million kilometers and included every conceivable extreme of temperature, weather, road type, and surface condition. In addition, it has been tested thoroughly using our lifestyle analysis system, which is equally significant. This one-of-a-kind evaluation process ensures that 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," according to Rolls-Royce. "We apply our detailed knowledge of our clients' tastes, habits, and requirements to ensure that Spectre delivers." Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is led by Torsten Muller-Otvos, who serves as Chief Executive Officer.
"The creation of the Rolls-Royce Spectre, the vehicle that ushers Rolls-Royce into an audacious and electrified future, is one of the most satisfying accomplishments of my professional life. Spectre has now finished what has been the most difficult testing program that has ever been created for a Rolls-Royce motor car, and I am incredibly proud of the fact that it has accomplished this. Such a wonderful car deserves a spectacular testing procedure. In fact, the point at which vehicle manufacturers complete their testing is where a significant portion of our effort to satisfy the criteria of the ultra-luxury customer begins. This has been an exceptional project that has been carried out by a group of engineers who are fully committed to their work and possess a high level of technical expertise. These engineers come from a variety of traditional technical disciplines as well as intriguing emerging technologies. The Rolls-Royce-Roycere ushers in the brand's illustrious future with its arrival in the here and now. Dr. Mihiar Ayoubi is currently serving as Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' Director of Engineering.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' genre-defining all-electric super coupé, the Spectre, has successfully completed a historic and one-of-a-kind undertaking: a testing program that simulated more than 400 years of use over the course of 2.5 million kilometers. During the most rigorous testing phase of its development in the brand's 119-year history, Spectre was subjected to temperatures ranging from -40°C to +50°C and situations that included snow and ice in the Arctic, deserts, high mountain passes, and the world's megacities.
Along the way, each of Spectre's 141,200 digital sender-receiver relations and 25,000 performance-related functions has been minutely examined, analyzed, and tweaked by Rolls-Royce engineers. This process represents almost 50,000 aggregate driving hours of highly skilled labor on the part of Rolls-Royce experts. This has led to thousands of iterative improvements in everything from Spectre's acoustic performance, composure under cornering, and steering precision to its charge time, electric range, and torque delivery. Each of these improvements is small on its own, but they have an enormous overall cumulative effect on the customer experience.
Analysis of Lifestyle Choices
In order to be a Rolls-Royce, Spectre must be more than just an engineering marvel; it must also provide customers with a genuine taste of super-luxury. Because of this, it has also been put through the brand's one-of-a-kind lifestyle analysis methodology. This method has been used to guide the creation of each new product that has emerged from the brand's headquarters throughout the era when it was based in Goodwood. This supplementary testing program goes well beyond the conventional automotive assessments to include how customers will use the motor vehicle in their day-to-day lives and encompasses a wider range of scenarios.
Lifestyle analysis is based on the detailed expertise and awareness of the super-luxury consumer that the marque possesses, in addition to the continual intelligence-gathering that takes place across the luxury industry. It enables engineers to foresee the very specific demands that are expected to be placed on a new Rolls-Royce and guarantee that the final engineered and fashioned experience has features and answers that are suited for the situation.
Engineers working at Rolls-Royce have used this information to consider a variety of factors that are of particular importance to the company's customers. For instance, they looked into how well the Spectre drivetrain operates on certain roads in and around some of the world's most exclusive communities, such as Sanya, which is located on Hainan Island in China; Dubai, which is located in the United Arab Emirates; Napa Valley, which is located in the state of California; and London, which is the marque's home market.
This testing is not restricted to determining how well the vehicle performs at highway speeds. Specific city center destinations are also employed to guarantee that features such as four-wheel steering offer the required maneuverability benefits to access locations, roadways, and property approaches with limited space. This is done so that the vehicle can navigate through these regions more easily. In fact, testing in and around the boroughs of Mayfair and Kensington and Chelsea in London ensured the appropriate rear axle steering for approaching major residential streets and upscale retail areas.
In a similar vein, in light of the settings in which Spectre will be deployed all over the world, a huge number of static testing methods are carried out in order to answer the most important client concerns. These include the following: whether or not it is possible to carry on a normal telephone conversation inside the motor car while it is parked alongside a waiting helicopter; the strength of the motor car's in-car internet connection between specific skyscrapers; and the ease of access when placing specific objects inside the motor car, such as the long garment bags that are used to protect formal evening suiting and gowns.
The objective of the Lifestyle Analysis phase of testing is the same as that of the technical road testing: to highlight any necessary alterations that need to be made to the motor car's specification or performance. For instance, after testing the power-assisted doors on an exceptionally steep hill, which replicated the steep driveways that are common in the hills of Los Angeles, California, the engineers added gyroscopic and G-force sensors to ensure that the doors open and close at the same effortless speed, regardless of the longitudinal or transverse parking angles. This enabled the doors to open and close at the same speed regardless of whether the vehicle was parked longitudinally or transversely.
A switchback in the neighborhood of Rolls-Royce's home in Goodwood, West Sussex, has been given the name 'Spectre Corner' because it was used so frequently to test the steering precision of the Spectre, which the marque's engineers consider to be the most precise in the company's history. Additionally, one corner was used so frequently to test the steering precision of the Spectre.
During the Lifestyle Analysis testing that took place in London, the city of Rolls-Royce's home market, the Spectre completed its 2.5-million-kilometer voyage in preparation for client deliveries, which are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of this year. This was a fitting location for the completion of this journey because London is also the home market for Rolls-Royce.
SPECTRUM OF CO2 EMISSIONS AND CONSUMPTION SPECTRUM OF CO2
WLTP:
Electric range is 323 miles (520 kilometers), and power usage is 2.9 miles per kWh (21.5 kWh/100 km). CO2 emissions are 0 grams per kilometer.
These preliminary findings have not been verified and are subject to alteration.
The official data on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, power consumption, and electric range were all obtained in accordance with the necessary measurement procedure and were in compliance with Regulation (EU) 715/2007 at the time that the type approval was granted. The information provided by WLTP takes into consideration any specialized gear that may be present in ranges. According to the WLTP, the official information is only available for vehicles that have been type-tested after January 1, 2021. This means that, according to the NEDC, this information is no longer available. You can learn more about the WLTP and NEDC measurement techniques by reading the article titled "WLTP: new times, new rules."