BMW Group Boss Announces Rolls-Royce Will Be Brand EV In Early 2030

Rolls-Royce Spectre. (Doc. BMW Group)

JAKARTA - BMW Group shows its commitment to welcoming the electric car market in the future, including in its own BMW brand to its subsidiaries, Mini and Rolls-Royce.

Rolls-Royce, which has previously set a vision to become a fully electric car brand by 2030, has introduced Spectre's model as a first step towards an electric future and the delivery of this model will begin later this year.

Quoted from Carscoops, Monday, November 6, BMW Group boss Oliver Zipse said that it is possible that the super luxury Rolls-Royce brand dedicated to electric cars will fully occur in the early 2030s or could happen earlier than planned.

The launch of the first electric Rolls-Royce sales is currently running smoothly. The Spectre, which is scheduled to be released at the end of this year, is designed to redefine modern luxury," Zipse said.

Spectre continues design languages such as its predecessor model, has a length dimension of 5,475 mm, width of 2,017 mm, height of 1,573 mm, and wheelbase of 3,210 mm, where the size almost matches the Phantom model.

In addition to its large size, Spectre comes with a rim of a size of 23 inches. This makes it the biggest rim in the Rolls-Royce model in 100 years.

Rolls-Royce also makes Spectre chassis 30 percent stiffer than any existing Rolls-Royce model, through battery integration and the use of aluminum exclusion.

Just like other Rolls-Royce models, Spectre focuses on driving comfort which has been the identity of the luxury brand for years.

The Spectre is built on the "Architecture of Luxury" platform which is flexiblely suitable for EVs and Rolls-Royce combustion engines. Meanwhile, batteries with a capacity of 102 kWh weighing up to 700 kg will provide Spectre range of about 520 km with a single charge.

With a total power of 584 dk and 900 Nm torque from two electric-one motors on each axis, these luxury cars are capable of accelerating from 0-100 km in just 4.4 seconds.