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Luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce to switch to all electric range by 2030

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="The badge of a Rolls-Royce Black Badge Dawn car is seen at a dealership in London, Britain, October 27, 2020. Peter Cziborra, Reuters/File Photo" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/tvpatrol/09/19/rolls-royce.jpg"/><figcaption>The badge of a Rolls-Royce Black Badge Dawn car is seen at a dealership in London, Britain, October 27, 2020. <em>Peter Cziborra, Reuters/File Photo</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>BERLIN - Rolls-Royce will produce only electric cars by 2030, the luxury carmaker said on Wednesday, joining other premium brands making the switch such as Volkswagen&#x27;s Bentley and Jaguar&#x27;s Land Rover.</p><p>The BMW-owned brand said in a statement that its first fully electric powered car, named &#x27;Spectre&#x27;, will be on the market in the fourth quarter of 2023, with testing to begin soon.</p><p>&quot;With this new product we set out our credentials for the full electrification of our entire product portfolio by 2030, said Torsten Muller-Otvos, CEO of Rolls-Royce, which is based in the south of England.</p><p>&quot;By then, Rolls-Royce will no longer be in the business of producing or selling any internal combustion engine products,&quot; Muller-Otvos added.</p><p>BMW has not set an end date for producing fossil fuel burning cars, instead setting a goal of 50 percent electric vehicle production by 2030, but its subsidiary Mini said in March it would go all-electric by the end of the decade.</p><p>The Jaguar brand of Tata Motors&#x27; Jaguar Land Rover will go all-electric by 2025, Volkswagen AG&#x27; luxury unit Bentley Motors by 2030, and Mercedes Benz maker Daimler by the same year, if market conditions allow.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/09/28/21/ford-speeds-to-electric-with-114b-investment">Ford speeds to electric with $11.4 billion investment</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/07/24/19/industry-group-electric-cars-gaining-acceptance-among-filipinos">Industry group: Electric cars gaining acceptance among Filipinos</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/03/16/21/volkswagen-vows-to-dominate-e-car-market-by-2025">Volkswagen vows to dominate e-car market by 2025</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1722225" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

Rolls-Royce will produce only electric cars by 2030, the luxury carmaker said on Wednesday, joining other premium brands making the switch such as Volkswagen's Bentley and Jaguar's Land Rover.