2025 Rolls-Royce Spectre
The quiet nature of electric vehicles makes perfect sense for ultra-luxury cars like the 2025 Rolls-Royce Spectre. Not only does the silent powertrain contribute to a sense of solitude, but the two motors’ 577 horsepower provides the same effortless pull as the Spectre’s siblings’—the Cullinan, Ghost, and Phantom—internal-combustion V-12 engine does. Accessed by opening one of two rear-hinged doors, the coupe’s cabin is lavish and beyond comfortable. Fine materials line every square inch of the interior, and Rolls-Royce smartly integrates modern technology without ruining the cabin’s classic vibes. Driving range comes in as high as an estimated 291 miles on a full charge; however, ordering the larger 23-inch wheels drops that estimate to just 266 miles. That’s less than rivals such as the BMW i7 and the Lucid Air Grand Touring. Those two luxury sedans also don’t cost as much as the Spectre, though neither has the grandeur and gravitas of a Rolls-Royce.
Rolls-Royce has added a more powerful Black Badge version of the Spectre to the lineup for 2025. The Spectre Black Badge boasts 73 more horsepower than the standard variant and features two new driving modes—Infinity and Spirited—which unlock the extra power for swifter acceleration. A retuned suspension system is said to improve handling while extra weighting has been added to the steering feel to impart a feeling of sportiness.
Rolls-Royce will let you customize a Spectre pretty much any way you want. And that’s a good thing, because, with a price tag this high, we expect buyers will want something truly personalized.
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The standard Spectre comes with a dual-motor electric powertrain with 577 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque. After taking the Spectre on a test drive, we can assure you this is more than enough power to move the big coupe with authority. The Black Badge variant gets a sharp increase in power and torque to 650 horsepower and 793 pound-feet. Although sharp impacts still make themselves known, Rolls-Royce has installed adaptive suspension to ensure an appropriately isolated ride over all but the biggest bumps, and the engineers also made room for a massive amount of sound-deadening material to maintain a whisper-quiet cabin. And oh how quiet it is. On the road, the Spectre is so silent inside that your ears pick up almost no sounds until you get up to 80 mph and the wind starts to only slightly penetrate into the tomb-like cabin. At our test track, we recorded a very quiet 63-dB reading on our sound meter at a 70 mph cruise.
When we took a Spectre to our test track to gather acceleration data, it hit 60 mph in 3.7 seconds. You may scoff at that result and point to the Tesla Model S Plaid that hit 60 mph in 2.1 seconds in our testing, but we’d be quick to remind you that Rolls-Royce’s brand ethos is more about quiet cruising than mind-bending performance. The Black Badge model will certainly be quicker to 60 mph than the standard one we tested, but we won’t know exactly how quick it is until we can put it through its paces.