Goodwood car maker’s next electric car, after the Spectre, is expected to be unveiled later this year
This is our first look at Rolls-Royce’s second EV, a huge Cullinan-sized SUV that is expected to be unveiled later this year.
While no official information about the vehicle has been released by the Goodwood car maker, Rolls has long said it was close to unveiling the next member of its EV line-up, following the Spectre in 2024.
Indeed, in January last year, CEO Chris Brownridge told Autocar “that there will be another electric Rolls-Royce later this year”, and while the car maker missed that target, these pictures suggest it is close to being production-ready.
The car could be unveiled at this July’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, given it will be built less than a mile away at Rolls-Royce’s headquarters, into which the firm last year invested £300m to get EV-ready. Pebble Beach’s Concours d’Elegance in August is another possibility, given the luxury-focused event is attended by likely buyers of such a car.
The prototype mule was spotted testing at parent company BMW Group’s proving ground in Arjeplog, Sweden.
The pictures appear to show that the SUV has very similar proportions to the Cullinan – the only SUV Rolls sells – possibly pointing to this being an electric replacement for that car.
However, elements such as the A-pillar angle, a shorter bonnet length (given no need for an engine), the position of the rearmost side window and bloated proportions at the rear suggest this is an all-new model, possibly positioned as an electric equivalent to that car.
Such a move would make sense, given that the Cullinan is Rolls’s best-seller by some margin – it accounted for the majority of the car maker’s 5664 sales in 2025. Replacing the big-selling ICE Cullinan with an EV, especially in light of current market trends and as other luxury makers turn away from electric cars, would be unlikely from a business perspective.
When approached by Autocar, Rolls said it was “unable to comment on future product plans”.
Expected to go on sale next year, the new EV will be the first model overseen by design director Domagoj Dukec, BMW’s former design boss who moved to the West Sussex firm in 2024.
The new SUV is expected to, like the rest of the Rolls range, sit on the car maker’s bespoke Architecture of Luxury platform, while taking advantage of parent BMW Group’s new technologies, including batteries and software. The new BMW iX3, which was launched at the end of last year, is the first to use these technologies and offers 500 miles of range, the biggest of any production car currently on sale in the UK.
