- The 2025 Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge is now the marque’s most powerful factory offering ever
- The EV, the first to wear the Black Badge trim, has seen its wick cranked to 659 horsepower
- To boot, as with most Rolls-Royces, the customization options are all but endless
Pass the Grey Poupon. Rolls-Royce has announced a Black Badge version of its all-electric Spectre, adding prestige and power by way of a new Infinity Mode. In the 2025 Spectre Black Badge, horsepower jumps to 659 all-electric ponies, a leap of about 70 horses, which are summoned when the driver calls upon that Infinity Mode, said to be inspired by a feature which delivered a burst of grunt in the Rolls-powered Spitfire planes during the Second World War.
Outside that setting, the Black Badge Spectre continues to make the same power as a standard Spectre, a machine surely now being rapidly fed to an industrial-grade wood chipper by its owners, since it is no longer top of the heap and thus worthless.
Peak torque is just shy of 800 lb-ft, sitting at an indicated 1,075 Nm. If you do happen to read any headlines touting “four-figure torque,” rest assured it’s in reference to that newton-metre metric, not the measure of pound-feet with which most North Americans are familiar. This grunt, too, is courtesy of a new selectable driving mode.
This is, by the way, the first time the Black Badge level of branding has been foisted upon an electric Rolls, a badge often seen as an invitation to younger customers instead of the marque’s traditional demographic. The brand figures people attracted to this audacious thing will appreciate a high level of customization, so items like an illuminated grille (in one of five colours); 23-inch wheels; headliner with 5,500 points of star-like light; and umpteen upholstery and trim combinations are all on tap.
Who’s buying this thing? Rolls says the typical customer will have this machine as part of a seven-car garage, seeing themselves as a type who can “select a motor car to suit every occasion.” Your humble author could also be counted in that demographic, but only if the plethora of motor cars can include a 2013 Hyundai Elantra with 350,000 km on the odometer; and a box-bodied Crown Vic with a nasty rod knock. Or perhaps I’ll take the worn-out Cherokee today.
Humour aside, the company highlights a trio of existing Spectre customers as prospective Black Badge intenders, including a Dubai client who has racked up 8,000 miles (12,800 km) on their all-electric Rolls; plus a British entrepreneur who allegedly covers 300 miles (480 km) between Suffolk and Goodwood on the regular. Someone else in Slovakia is said to have packed 6,000 miles (9,600 km) on their Spectre EV in about six months. It seems Rolls-Royce is eager to demonstrate its electric vehicle can, and is, being used like a so-called “normal car” by the 1%ers of this world.
Pricing wasn’t announced—but if you have to ask, et cetera. The standard Spectre starts at a cool half-mil here in Canada, with most examples bearing a sticker far more than that amount when counting options. A six-figure price tag starting with a ‘7’ or ‘8’ is not out of the question for this Black Badge variant.
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