At a time when luxury and sustainability are coming to live and co-exist together, Rolls-Royce has provided its most ambitious response ever. The legendary British brand has introduced Project Nightingale, the most beautiful two-seat electric convertible with a hundred years of design philosophy and a century of silence on electrification – and it might be the most exclusive car to date.
Rolls-Royce, a luxury car manufacturer has released a two-seat, electric convertible. The company owned by BMW announced that it would produce only 100 vehicles of the Project Nightingale, and that they will be made by hand at the Rolls-Royce factory in Goodwood, West Sussex and will be delivered in 2028.
The very name suggests poetry and accuracy and the car does not disappoint. The prototype is a convertible two-seater, in a pastel blue, that features a smooth, streamlined design, inspired by the brand experimental high-speed EX models of the 1920s. The nod is a considered reference to the pre-war period of bold engineering in Rolls-Royce history – the period when it went further not at the behest of the market, but simply because it loved the machine.
Design: Electric Future Art Deco Meets Art Deco
Project Nightingale will be 5.76 metres long, approximately the size of its flagship four or five-seat saloon, the Phantom, said Rolls-Royce. It also included that it would have a long bonnet to make it look like a torpedo basing it on the experimental cars of the 1920s that the company used, called EX models and the Art Deco era.
The outcome is a car that is dragged into another time and place – old fashioned and new-fashioned, personal and authoritative. Where the majority of the electric cars of the time are striving to achieve anonymity through aerodynamic means, Project Nightingale struts its proportions on its sleeve. That long, sweeping bonnet, the open top shape and that trademark pastel blue finish are all indicators that this is no car that was designed to travel the highway, but a vehicle that was designed to endure the test of time.
The Feature of Silence
Project Nightingale is a project that does not do one of the most evocative things. The fact that it will be pure electric will mean that there will be practically no mechanical noise, the company said. This is a radical proposal as far as a convertible is concerned. Take a ride in the country with the wind, birds, and the almost silent, all-electric drive buzzing at your ears as the only thing in between you and the world. Such silence–polished and perfect–has always been a Rolls-Royce trademark. It is logical to its utmost in Project Nightingale.
Who Has One And What it Costs
This is no car that you would bump into at a dealership. The company is already aware of the 100 clients, and they will get their cars by 2028. They are primarily located in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and the Middle East, but not in China, where the car is not homologated because of the efficiency regulations of electric vehicles.
When it comes to the price, Rolls-Royce is as usual secretive. Although the company does not publicly release the price of its cars, it claimed that Project Nightingale would be priced between its Private Commission and Coachbuild products which have been estimated to cost over £500,000 and over 20 million respectively. That is, it is the prerogative of the mega-rich to own something, a fact that will not come as a revelation to anyone.
A More Bigger Change
The brand is at an interesting time of launch. In the previous month, Rolls-Royce canceled plans to sell pure-electric cars only since 2030 and noted that it would maintain sales of petrol-powered vehicles until then. Project Nightingale is, then, not an all-electric future requirement – it is a declaration of possibility, a demonstration of what the technology can do under the highest standards of craftsmanship ever.
That was the spirit that Chief Executive Chris Brownridge had bottled, when he described Project Nightingale as the most outrageous manifestation of what Rolls-Royce can do today. It also combined the total design latitude of coachbuilding, powerful near-silent all-electric powertrain and a distinctively potent and yet relaxing manifestation of open-top motoring, three things that the brand had never before shared at the same time, he added.
It is the second electric vehicle by Rolls-Royce, the first being the Spectre that was launched three years ago. But where the Spectre was a proclamation of business purpose, Project Nightingale will be a statement of art, one of the rarest of the 21st century, with a total of 100 having been produced, all by hand, all in West Sussex.
To Rolls-Royce, the Nightingale song is only on the rise
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