Rolls-Royce to stop making internal combustion cars by decade's end

Meanwhile, cross-country rival Bentley has announced it will bring forth a fully electric vehicle by 2025

In nine years, Rolls-Royce will stop selling vehicles that run on gasoline, Chief Executive Officer Torsten Müller-Ötvös said in a Sept. 29 announcement. The first of the company’s planned all-electric portfolio, the Spectre sedan, will arrive by the fourth quarter of 2023.
 

“With this new product, we set out our credentials for the full electrification of our entire product portfolio by 2030,” Müller-Ötvös said. “By then, Rolls-Royce will no longer be in the business of producing or selling any internal combustion engine products.”

Müller-Ötvös described the news as the most important decision in the history of the brand since Charles