electric car
electric car at Spoot: Spotted Early is a file of 2 stories. The newest of them: “Bentley's first EV keeps the cabin, calls in musicians to fake the V8” and “Bentley's first EV is its fastest ever, and it looks like nothing else”. Bentley's first EV keeps the cabin intact, then hands the engine note to a bunch of musicians who've been asked to fake a V8. Bentley finally let the covers slip off its first electric car back in July, and now we can actually see the thing. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every electric car story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
Bentley's first EV keeps the cabin, calls in musicians to fake the V8
Bentley's first EV keeps the cabin intact, then hands the engine note to a bunch of musicians who've been asked to fake a V8. That's the razor clam here. While every other electric car chases silence or synth whooshes, Bentley is wondering what a luxury car should sound like when there's no combustion to lean on. The answer, apparently, is a carefully composed performance. It's a clever pivot, and it fits the brand's long proportions and tactile cabin like a tailored glove. But here's the gently skeptical part: a recorded growl is still a recording. Does it feel like a Bentley when the pedal goes down? That's the question worth circling back to.
Bentley's first EV is its fastest ever, and it looks like nothing else
Bentley finally let the covers slip off its first electric car back in July, and now we can actually see the thing. It's the fastest Bentley ever, which is a wild flex for a brand known more for wood veneer and wafting than for scaring your fillings loose. And it looks like nothing else they've made, which is saying something for a company that's been polishing the same grand tourer silhouette for decades. I'm genuinely curious about the shape, because it's not a swoopy coupe or a boxy SUV, it's somewhere in between. The spec sheet is still thin, so I'm not going to invent range figures or a price tag. But the real question, the one that launch video probably skipped, is what it actually feels like to drive.