Back in 2011 Rolls-Royce announced that it had made an electric car.
Just one, mind, to canvass the views of current and prospective customers and those of a small number of journalists. The responses were rather different. Forgive the sprawling generalisation and with apologies to any dissenting voices, but broadly speaking the media loved the car, called 102EX, for all the reasons you might expect: its torque and silence pre-eminent among them. Yes the range was limited and, of course, it would take an age to charge, but back then a Rolls-Royce was one of
