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“The electric powertrain is something very true to Rolls Royce, it’s effortless, there’s huge amounts of torque and it is perfectly quiet.”

Richard Collar, Head of Bespoke Sales and Marketing for Rolls-Royce, hints at an electric model but did not go into detail.
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“We do not believe there is strong growth in the EV market. Subsidising the market is for now the only way to sell these vehicles as their limited range and long refuelling time is discouraging most potential customers. Lithium technology does not provide the performance or the cost factors to appeal to the mainstream.”

Michael Lord, Senior Principal Engineer at Toyota Technical Center, on the company’s insistence on what he calls a “mixed portfolio” that includes gasoline.
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