Luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce has confirmed that it will fully commit to electric vehicle production and only produce electric vehicles by the end of 2023.
The company, which also has divisions that still produce jet engines, said the Series 2 variety of Phantom, Ghost and Cullinan will stick to V12 engines for now, but once those are complete , the brand will switch to electric power. units.
Speaking to Autocar, Rolls-Royce boss Torsten Muller-Otvos said: “By the end of 2030 there will be no V12s. The Series 2 cars will be V12s, the new Rolls-Royces will always be electric.”
Nor will Rolls-Royce make a steady transition to all-electric, in the form of hybrid cars. The automaker added that it will go straight from V12 to EV in one quick action.
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There’s no exact launch date as to when Rolls-Royce will become a pure electric vehicle maker, all we know is that it will be complete by the end of 2023.