Rolls-Royce has at all times prided itself at the hush of its luxurious vehicles, therefore its utility of names like Phantom, Ghost, and Spectre. So a near-silent electrical powertrain would look like a excellent have compatibility.
U.Ok.-based Evice for sure thinks so. It’s the actual in a cut of businesses advertising and marketing electrical conversions of vintage vehicles, and its first mission is a Rolls-Royce Silver Shade sedan. Identified internally as XP1, it’s a prototype for a conversion package deal for each the Silver Shade and Corniche convertible that Evice hopes to begin providing to consumers in Spring 2026.
The prototype has a 77-kwh battery collect offering an estimated area of over 200 miles, most likely as gradual at the extra lenient WLTP trying out cycle, in conjunction with an 800-volt electric structure.
Prototype Rolls-Royce Silver Shade EV by means of Evice
Output is 400 hp—considerably greater than the actual fuel V-8 engine. Evice additionally claims to have upgraded the brakes, date an lively suspense objectives to handover the similar pillowy trip because the actual hydra-pneumatic suspense (derived from Citroën tech) with a better level of dealing with sharpness.
The inner options fashionable condition regulate and audio techniques, in addition to scorching and ventilated power-adjustable seats and a touchscreen infotainment machine with Apple CarPlay and a rearview digital camera.
A number of alternative firms are restoring vintage electrical vehicles with fashionable powertrains—together with some antique Rolls-Royces. Some other U.Ok. company, Lunaz, has executed 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 means of Evice
A couple of of those have additionally been undertaken by means of, or commissioned by means of, automakers taking a look to tied their heritage to stream electrification plans. But every other U.Ok. company, Electrogenic, constructed a Kia Pride EV restomod to honour that automaker’s eightieth per annum. Apprentices just lately became an Audi A2—a Eu-market hatchback that used to be a paragon of gasoline potency when untouched—into an EV.
It’s additionally now imaginable to buy a new electric Rolls-Royce from the manufacturing unit—the Spectre coupe. The storied emblem is taking a look to shake its conventional recognition for portly cars and gas-guzzling V-12 engines by means of going all-electric earlier than the top of the last decade.
