What's it like to 運動 Rolls-Royce's first ELECTRIC car? We take to the wheel of the new £350,000 Spectre

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So, this really was it. I was の中で the very first to 運動 Rolls-Royce’s very first electric car called Spectre.

And it truly was electrifying.

I was 特権d to be one of only a handful of people from around the globe to be 許すd behind the wheel of a 近づく 生産／産物-ready 見解／翻訳／版 of the sleek 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd 無-放出／発行s 高級な fastback that is 始める，決める to revolutionise the British 高級な car-製造者.

And what an 注目する，もくろむ-開始 扱う／治療する and delight this 最高の-クーデター turned out to be.

Rolls-Royce Spectre driven: We are の中で the first in the world to take to the wheel of the British 高級な brand's first fully-electric model. Here's what it's like from a driver's 視野

The Spectre is the first Rolls-Royce car with a plug. It will cost from £350,000 when first 配達／演説／出産s take place later this year - though most models will have bespoke features that will 押し進める the 普通の／平均（する） 支出 on each 見解／翻訳／版 to half a million

Although prices for Spectre will start at around £350,000, the high level of bespoke 選択s so beloved of Rolls-Royce 顧客s means the 打率 支出 is likely to be closer to £500,000. So, you’d 推定する／予想する it to be special.

For my road 実験（する） I had flown to South Africa, where Spectre is coming に向かって the end of its 全世界の 1.5 million-mile 実験（する）ing programme ? 同等（の） to circumnavigating the globe 62 times - with around 1.24 million miles already 完全にするd.

Here, the 運動s were taking place in two 場所s ? baking hot and 乾燥した，日照りの Augrabies in the Northern Cape where 気温s 最高の，を越す 50C - and in the more Mediterranean-style Western Cape French Corner winelands, around Franschhoek, 近づく Cape Town.

On those 新たな展開ing coun try roads, I took to the 運動ing’s seat for my own 排除的 spin.

This was not my first 遭遇（する） with Spectre.

In March last year, I 棒 shotgun in the 乗客 seat of a 偽装するd 実験（する） 見解／翻訳／版 on the 辛勝する／優位 of the 北極の Circle, with much of the dashboard covered up, as it underwent 厳しい 冷淡な 天候 実験（する）ing around the remote Swedish town of Arjeplog.

The Spectre is on the final 脚 of its 全世界の 1.5 million-mile 実験（する）ing programme ? 同等（の） to circumnavigating the globe 62 times - with around 1.24 million miles already 完全にするd. This took place in S outh Africa, where we travelled to 運動 it

The final part of 実験（する）ing took place in two 場所s ? baking hot and 乾燥した，日照りの Augrabies in the Northern Cape where 気温s 最高の，を越す 50C - and in the more Mediterranean-style Western Cape French Corner winelands, around Franschhoek, 近づく Cape Town

The car we drove is a 近づく 生産／産物-ready 見解／翻訳／版 of the sleek 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd 無-放出／発行s 高級な fastback that is 始める，決める to revolutionise the British 高級な car-製造者

Spectre has also been 実験（する）d in the more temperate Cote d’Azur, in the South of フラン, where many of its high 逮捕する-価値（がある） 顧客s are more likely to relax.

My driver then was Spectre’s 事業／計画（する） leader, the effervescent and irrepressible Dr Joerg Wunder ? ‘Doctor Wonder’.

Will it fit in my garage? New Rolls-Royce Spectre?

Price: from around £350,000

Price with 推定する／予想するd ‘extras’: £500,000

On sale: Now

First 配達／演説／出産s: Autumn 2023

Doors: 2 Seats: 4

Length: 5453mm/214.685in

Width: 2080mm/81.889in

高さ: 1559mm/61.377in

Wheelbase: 3210mm/126.378in

Kerb 負わせる: 2975kg

Propulsion: Two electric モーターs ? one 運動ing each axle

殴打／砲列 始める，決める-up: Low flat ‘skateboard’ style underfloor 殴打／砲列 system 二塁打ing as sound insulation

Chassis: All aluminium 柔軟な space-でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる chassis

Steering: Four wheel steering system

力／強力にする source: 殴打／砲列

力／強力にする: 430kW/577horsepower

Torque: 900Nm

放出／発行s: 無

力／強力にする 消費: 2.9 miles/kWh

非難する time: 0-80% o n a 195kW 急速な／放蕩な-charger in 34 minutes (est)?

範囲: 323 miles (London to just north of Newcastle)

Acceleration 0-62mph: 4.5 seconds (est)

最高の，を越す 速度(を上げる）: 155mph (限られた／立憲的な)

Wheels: 23in

Turning circle: 12.7 metres

This time 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, in the gloriously hot summer of the African southern 半球 I now climbed inside a glamourous fully-明らかにする／漏らすd Spectre and it was Dr Wunder’s turn to be 乗客.

Spectre certainly has real road presence. First impressions are of a 広範囲にわたる aerodynamic two-door four-seater, with a 簡素化するd Spirit of Ecstasy 飛行機で行くing Lady at its prow. It’s been 特に 形態／調整d to 減ずる 空気／公表する 抵抗 even more, and you can even 明示する an illuminated 見解／翻訳／版 as an 選択.

The fun begins the moment you step through one of the two 後部-hinged doors and into the low-slung cabin. For there’s the delicate 事柄 of の近くにing the door behind you.

Now, as 顧客s will most likely be 運動ing themselves ? it’s a driver’s car after all ? there won’t be an attendant or chauffeur to do it for you. And at around 1.5m these are the largest pillarless coach doors ever fitted to a Rolls-Royce.

普通は there is a button for the driver to 圧力（をかける）, so the door の近くにs automatically. But Spectre goes one better. You don’t even have to 緊張する yourself do that. In a 動議 which both surprises and delights, you 簡単に 圧力（をかける） your foot on the ブレーキ, and the door silently and elegantly swings shut and 調印（する）s you in.

Pure genius. It made me smile every time. Whoever （機の）カム up with that idea should get a メダル.

The dashboard and 操縦室 is sophisticated, simple, relaxing, 抑制するd and sedate. No whizz-bang flashing lights or sci-fi styling, shouting ‘I’m an electric Rolls-Royce’.

It’s 簡単に a Rolls-Royce, though a beautiful one at that. And making things look simple and effortless is usually the most コンビナート／複合体 of 仕事s that the 高級な legend pulls after masterfully.

As a driver Spectre feels cosseting, low and sporty in 前線. Yet there’s also a surprising 量 of room for two 乗客s in the 後部, thanks to clever design and the わずかに 嘘（をつく）-支援する positioning of the seats.

Then I 解雇する／砲火／射撃d her up. There’s a 静める almost silent but faintly perceptible トン as the モーターs spring to life. Rolls-Royce used the 緊張するs of a professional harpist to create just the 権利 ambience.

運動ing Spectre is the easiest thing in the world. There’s no clutter of dials and buttons. The car does most of the work for you, leaving you to enjoy the experience.

It is 力／強力にするd by a mighty 577 horsepower (430kW) electric モーター and 殴打／砲列 configuration which 推進するs the 近づく 3 tonne 乗り物 from 0 to 60mph in just 4.4 seconds up to a 最高の，を越す 速度(を上げる） 推定する／予想するd to be 限られた／立憲的な to 155mph.

But it also has a 重要な 十分な-告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 範囲 of up to 323 miles (520km)? enough to 運動 from London to just north of Newcastle.

It is Rolls-Royce’s most aerodynamic モーター car ever, has a presence and size 類似の to that of the earlier 石油 力／強力にするd Phantom クーデター and is 述べるd as its spiritual 後継者.

On the winding mountain roads of the Cape, Spectre is sure-footed, nimble, and amazingly responsive. Rolls-Royce always 目的（とする）s to produce in its cars a 魔法 carpet ride, and with Spectre it has electrified it.

Daily Mail's Ray Massey 支え（る）s against the new £350,000 electric Rolls-Royce Spectre. He was の中で a select handful of 新聞記者／雑誌記者s from around the world to get a first 手渡すs-on experience of how it 運動s

One thing owners will need to take care about - Ray says - is watching the 速度(を上げる） if they want to keep their licence. Exceptionally 急速な／放蕩な can seem rather relaxed

'The new Rolls-Royce Spectre, which carries at its prow the famous 飛行機で行くing lady Spirit of Ecstasy, really does now also 具体的に表現する the Spirit of Electricity'

When, after a period に引き続いて some slow-moving traffic, the 適切な時期 on a long straight road （機の）カム to 追いつく, the acceleration was phenomenal - but also seamlessly smooth and controlled.

One thing owners will need to take care about is watching the 速度(を上げる） if they want to keep their licence. Exceptionally 急速な／放蕩な can seem rather relaxed.

It feels remarkably intuitive and even the slightest touch on the tiller 料金d instantaneously into the wheels. Your Spectre goes 正確に／まさに where you are looking, as if you and the car are joined. And it is fun. You won’t get bored 運動ing this car. After for a long 運動 in this electric grand tourer, you’ll probably arrive feeling fresher than when you started.

If you want to 増加する the 運動ing 抵抗 ? and 生成する some more 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 ? you 簡単に 圧力（をかける） the ‘B’ button. I liked this as you can 減ずる your 依存 on the ブレーキs and let Spectre take the 緊張する. But everything is seamless. Not at all 軍隊d, or jerky. It all feels so natural and smooth.

Spectre is 力／強力にするd by a mighty 577 horsepower (430kW) electric モーター and 殴打／砲列 configuration which 推進するs the 近づく 3 tonne 乗り物 from 0 to 60mph in just 4.4 seconds up to a 最高の，を越す 速度(を上げる） 推定する／予想するd to be 限られた／立憲的な to 155mph

The electric Roller has a 十分な-告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 範囲 of up to 323 miles (520km)? enough to 運動 from London to just north of Newcastle

It is Rolls-Royce’s most aerodynamic モーター car ever, has a presence and size 類似の to that of the earlier 石油 力／強力にするd Phantom クーデター and is 述べるd as its spiritual 後継者

I joined the new Spectre at a 批判的な time in its progression に向かって first 顧客 配達／演説／出産s later this autumn.

All of the mechanics and clever ソフトウェア are in place, but it is を受けるing the latter part of its ‘fin ishing school’ education in which it is 存在 ‘taught to be a Rolls-Royce.’

This of course means 詳細（に述べる）d 実験（する）s and checking of electronic data. But it also means that 伝統的な, old school seat-of-your pants feeling in your posterior. There’s nothing to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 it.

Rolls-Royce engineers reckon at the 行う／開催する／段階 I’m 運動ing, the Spectre is around 60 per cent there, and by the time it finishes its time in South Africa it will be closer to 80 per cent. But as many know, that final 20 per cent to 達成する ultra-refinement is often the hardest.

There’ll be a penultimate four seasons 改造する to 二塁打-check how it 成し遂げるs now in a variety of 気候s, before 可能性のある 顧客s are given a chance to try it for themselves to アイロンをかける out any last minute lifestyle and ごくわずかの 問題／発行するs.

‘We’re educating the car to behave like a Rolls-Royce. ‘We’re 準備するing Spectre for 卒業’, says Rolls-Royce’s director of 工学 Dr Mihiar Ayoubi as he 簡潔な／要約するd on his 最新の life’s work.

The fun begins the moment you step through one of the two 後部-hinged doors and into the low-slung cabin. For there’s the delicate 事柄 of の近くにing the door behind you, which can be done automatically by 簡単に 圧力（をかける）ing the foot ブレーキ

Spectre? has a 簡素化するd Spirit of Ecstasy 飛行機で行くing Lady at its prow. It’s been 特に 形態／調整d to 減ずる 空気／公表する 抵抗 even more, and you can even 明示する an illuminated 見解／翻訳／版 as an 選択

'運動ing Spectre is the easiest thing in the world. There’s no clutter of dials and buttons. The car does most of the work for you, leaving you to enjoy the experience'

What is so remarkable about Spectre, though only in rarefied Rolls-Royce 条件 I should 強調する／ストレス, is just how unremarkable it feels. It looks, 運動s, and cossets you just like you would 推定する／予想する a Roll-Royce to do. At no time did I think: ’This is an electric car.’

I needed to make no 妥協s or allowances. The company 主張するs it is making a Rolls-Royce first, and in that 尊敬（する）・点 it has fully 後継するd.

Rolls-Royce 顧客s want their 高級な cars to be hassle 解放する／自由な ? but they also 信用 Rolls-Royce’s engineers to know what is good for them. And they only know that when they experience it for themselves.

Built with pride by the 2,000-strong 全労働人口 at Goodwood, 近づく Chichester in West Sussex, Spectre has the biggest 始める，決める of cobalt-lithium 殴打／砲列s in the parent BMW group.

And they don’t just 供給する 力／強力にする. They also 二塁打 as 700kg of useful sound deadening. But while silence may be golden, total silence can be disorienting and even make you feel queasy. So, engineers have to carefully 許す some controlled, natural ambient noise, as this is what we, as human 存在s, are used to. It’s an exceptionally delicate balance, but it 作品.

Our first 運動 of the new Spectre comes months before 顧客s take first 配達／演説／出産s later this autumn

The Spectre Ray drove is said to be around 60% there ーに関して／ーの点でs of the final 製品. By the time it finishes its time in South Africa it will be closer to 80%. That final 20% to 達成する ultra-refinement is often the hardest

Spectre looks, 運動s, and cossets you just like you would 推定する／予想する a Roll-Royce to do. At no time did Ray think: ’This is an electric car,' he 布告するs?

Spectre is also 高度に digitised and the most 'connected' Rolls-Royce ever, packed with 'intelligent' 構成要素s. Its electronic nervous system has more than 141,200 links. There are 1,000 electronic 機能（する）／行事s and 25,000 子会社 機能（する）／行事s 手段ing variations in 気候, ground 速度(を上げる）, road type, 乗り物 status and 運動ing style. It has nearly 4.5 miles of wiring, compared to 1.25 miles in 石油 driven Rolls-Royces, and 25 times more programmes or algorithms.

Special 中断, sensors and a four-wheel steering system 準備するs the car for the road ahead. Under cornering, some 18 sensors are 監視するd, and steering, ブレーキing, 力／強力にする 配達／演説／出産 and 中断 parameters are adjusted to 持続する 安定.

And the 広大な／多数の／重要な thing about all of this ? as an owner you wouldn’t 現実に need or want to know any of it. It’s all under the 肌. Invisible. But you’ll feel the 利益 when you 運動 it.

Rolls-Royce say their cars are perfectly ふさわしい to electric 力／強力にする and that in 1900, Rolls-Royce co-創立者, the Honourable Charles Rolls 現実に ? who bought his own 早期に electric car - prophesised an electric 未来 for a clean, noiseless モーター car.

Before 顧客 配達／演説／出産s later this year there’ll be a penultimate four seasons 改造する to 二塁打-check how it 成し遂げるs now in a variety of 気候s

Special 中断, sensors and a four-wheel steering system 準備するs the car for the road ahead. Under cornering, some 18 sensors are 監視するd, and steering, ブレーキing, 力／強力にする 配達／演説／出産 and 中断 parameters are adjusted to 持続する 安定?

A few lucky 顧客s who have put their 指名する 負かす／撃墜する for one will also be given a chance to try it for themselves to アイロンをかける out any last minute lifestyle and ごくわずかの 問題／発行するs before the electric 乗り物 攻撃する，衝突するs 全世界の showrooms

In 2011 Rolls-Royce produced an 実験の one-off electric 原型 ? based on a Phantom ? called 102EX which I drove around Sussex. But it was before its time and 殴打／砲列 範囲 need to develop. It was followed in 2016 by the futuristic 概念 103EX.

Last year Rolls-Royce enjoyed 記録，記録的な／記録する 財政上の and sales 業績／成果 ? which 料金d into German parent company BMW ? and is on course to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 that this year.

Spectre 示すs the first step in a 変形, which by the end of 2030 will see all new Rolls-Royce models be 純粋に electric.

Rolls-Royce 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Torsten M?ller-?tv?s, 62, who took over as CEO in 2010 and over 13 years has led that 変形, told me at the 運動 in South Africa: ‘I think time will show, once the brand goes 完全に electric by the end of 2030, that this was 絶対 the 権利 決定／判定勝ち（する） and that electric is the perfect propulsion for a Rolls-Royce.’

And the new Rolls-Royce Spectre, which carries at its prow the famous 飛行機で行くing lady Spirit of Ecstasy, really does now also 具体的に表現する the Spirit of Electricity.