Rolls-Royce has all the time prided itself on the quietness of its luxurious automobiles, therefore its use of names like Phantom, Ghost, and Spectre. So a near-silent electrical powertrain would appear like an excellent match.
U.Okay.-based Evice actually thinks so. It is the newest in a crop of corporations advertising electrical conversions of traditional automobiles, and its first undertaking is a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow sedan. Identified internally as XP1, it is a prototype for a conversion bundle for each the Silver Shadow and Corniche convertible that Evice hopes to start out providing to clients in Spring 2026.
The prototype has a 77-kwh battery pack offering an estimated vary of over 200 miles, possible as measured on the extra lenient WLTP testing cycle, together with an 800-volt electrical structure.
Prototype Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow EV by Evice
Output is 400 hp—considerably greater than the unique gasoline V-8 engine. Evice additionally claims to have upgraded the brakes, whereas an energetic suspension goals to offer the identical pillowy experience as the unique hydra-pneumatic suspension (derived from Citroën tech) with a larger diploma of dealing with sharpness.
The inside options fashionable local weather management and audio programs, in addition to heated and ventilated power-adjustable seats and a touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay and a rearview digital camera.
A number of different corporations are restoring traditional electrical automobiles with fashionable powertrains—together with some classic Rolls-Royces. One other U.Okay. agency, Lunaz, has achieved electrical conversions of the 1956 Rolls-Royce Cloud and 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V, in addition to Bentley and Jaguar fashions.
Rolls-Royce Silver Corniche EV by Evice
Just a few of those have additionally been undertaken by, or commissioned by, automakers trying to tie their heritage to present electrification plans. Yet one more U.Okay. agency, Electrogenic, constructed a Kia Satisfaction EV restomod to have fun that automaker’s eightieth anniversary. Apprentices not too long ago turned an Audi A2—a European-market hatchback that was a paragon of gasoline effectivity when new—into an EV.
It is also now doable to purchase a brand new electrical Rolls-Royce from the manufacturing facility—the Spectre coupe. The storied model is trying to shake its conventional popularity for portly autos and gas-guzzling V-12 engines by going all-electric earlier than the top of the last decade.
