Recently, the first pure electric vehicle of the Rolls-Royce brand, the Spectre, has completed winter tests near the Swedish Arctic Circle, and it still needs to travel nearly 2 million kilometers. The idea of electrification is no stranger to Rolls-Royce, an electrical engineer early in his career who spent most of his life building internal combustion engines that mimic the characteristics of electric vehicles – quiet operation, instant response, smooth gear changes.
Rolls-Royce Flash's road testing is a significant task and the most demanding vehicle test Rolls-Royce has ever had. The vehicle's test mileage will total 2.5 million kilometers, equivalent to the total mileage of a Rolls-Royce car used for more than 400 years. Judging from the road test photos, the appearance of the Rolls-Royce Flash is very similar to the Phantom of the current model on sale, and the body posture of the two-door coupe maintains a dignified and elegant aristocratic temperament. The front of the car is still almost square and straight, and both the Parthenon and the goddess of celebration have been preserved on this stage.
The Shining's all-aluminium body structure, combined with low wind resistance styling and detailing, makes its resistance coefficient as low as 0.26Cd. From a design point of view, as a pure electric model, the Shining is more suitable for two-door coupes, placing the floor in the middle of the structural frame, rather than the top or bottom of the frame, so that the battery has a very aerodynamic placement channel, but also makes the lower floor contour structure in one go. Similarly, a lower seat layout can also lead to a better riding experience.
Rolls-Royce has not yet announced the battery supplier and specific parameters of the new car, and only knows that the battery pack weighs 680kg, so it is impossible to judge the approximate mileage. In addition, the Rolls-Royce Flash is the product of "oil to electricity", and the power system is likely to be applied to the bmw iX M60's electric drive system, using dual electric motors to drive this big guy.
In fact, as early as 10 years ago, Rolls-Royce tried on pure electric models, only because of the mileage, charging speed, and battery life, etc., resulting in the final death of the two electric versions. In 2011, Rolls-Royce built the Phantom Experimental Electric Based on the Phantom, which is code-named 102EX, which is built according to the car specification level and has legal qualifications on the road.
In 2016, Rolls-Royce again introduced a second all-electric version code-named 103EX, with the full name Vision Next 100. Does the sight of "Next" remind you of something? Yes, it and BMW iNEXT belong to the same period of concept cars, when the publicity point is completely driverless technology, but the appearance is too sci-fi, completely can not see the signs of mass production, just a show technology publicity display activities. After the 103EX Global Tour, it was sealed at rolls-Royce Goodwood headquarters.
It is reported that the Rolls-Royce Shining will be officially launched in the fourth quarter of 2023, and the official also announced that Rolls-Royce will achieve full electrification in 2030, when it will no longer produce and sell internal combustion engine models. This marks a very important step for the brand, so much so that the move has been dubbed the "Rolls-Royce 3.0" to commemorate this new era of electrification.
Fans of the once unattainable luxury brands, such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Porsche, Lotus, Rolls-Royce, etc. have begun to transform to electrification, I see who will continue to shout "V12 forever", "self-absorption is king", "stick to the internal combustion engine" slogan? Don't be stupid, for now, it's all hi-hi, sooner or later you have to bow to reality.