Bentley Torcal electric car: specs, range and price explained
Bentley pulled the wraps off the Torcal in London today, its first fully electric production car and the fourth model line in the marque's 107-year history, joining the Continental GT, Flying Spur and Bentayga (Bentley Media; WIRED). The Bentley Torcal electric car is Bentley's bet that wealthy buyers want zero-emission motoring without giving up the design cues that have defined the brand for more than a century.
It starts at £173,300, roughly $218,000 and below the Bentayga, according to WIRED; CAR Magazine calls it the cheapest new Bentley on sale. Bentley CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser called it "a Bentley first and foremost, created by hand by people who care," adding he believes it is "one of the best Bentleys ever," per Bentley Media.
The timing is not exactly friendly to electric luxury SUVs. Lamborghini shelved its Lanzador EV after CEO Stephan Winkelmann said buyer demand had gone "almost to zero, if not to zero," Mercedes-Benz sold just 1,450 electric G-Wagens across Europe through April 2025, and Rolls-Royce Spectre sales are reportedly down by nearly half, according to WIRED. Bentley is launching into that headwind anyway, and its own early signal is more encouraging: about 40% of people expressing interest in the Torcal have never owned a Bentley before, the company told The Independent.
Bentley Torcal EV specs: power, acceleration and range
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The Torcal launches in two forms. The core model produces 821 PS and 1,194 Nm of torque, enough for a 3.3-second run to 60 mph and a top speed of 155 mph, while the Torcal S pushes that to 888 PS and 1,350 Nm, the highest torque figure Bentley has ever fitted to a production car, with 0-60 mph in 2.8 seconds when Launch Control is engaged and a 162 mph top speed (Bentley Media).
Both variants run on twin permanent-magnet synchronous motors fed by an 800-volt electrical system and a 113-kWh battery pack built from 192 lithium-ion pouch cells, according to Bentley Media. Bentley quotes a WLTP range of up to 375 miles. That figure is a European lab test, not a U.S. EPA rating, and estimates for how it might translate vary: WIRED puts a rough EPA equivalent around 330 miles, while Car and Driver offers a preliminary estimate closer to 320 miles. Neither figure is confirmed, and independent testing has not yet happened.
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Bentley Torcal range and charging
Bentley's stated charging figures are aggressive for the segment. The company claims a 10-80% DC fast charge in 16 minutes at 400 kW, which it says translates to roughly 100 miles of added range in about seven minutes (Bentley Media).
The U.S.-spec Torcal will use a standard NACS charge port, which lines it up with the fast-charging network already built out for Tesla and other automakers across the country, Car and Driver reports. Bentley backs the battery with a 100,000-mile, 10-year warranty (Bentley Media). Fast charging sits at the center of Bentley's pitch here: the promise that switching to electric power doesn't mean giving up the long-distance ease the brand has always sold.
Inside Bentley's first EV: chassis, cabin and craft
The Torcal debuts Bentley's first fully active suspension, using adaptive two-valve dampers, and pairs it with standard all-wheel steering that cuts the turning circle to 11.1 meters despite a body that stretches nearly five meters (Bentley Media). Buyers can also step up to carbon-silicon-carbide ceramic brakes, with 440mm front rotors that Bentley says are jointly the largest fitted to any of its cars.
Inside, the cabin mixes curved OLED screens with physical switchgear rather than going fully digital, and there is no passenger display, according to The Independent and WIRED. Product Line Director Martin Page described the goal as a cabin "enhanced rather than dominated by technology," per Bentley Media.
The materials list leans on craft over novelty. Bentley worked with Fox Brothers to develop an automotive-grade Merino wool trim, which the company describes as a world first for the application, and introduced a new veneer built from around a thousand layers of walnut offcuts and recycled paper, sliced to under a millimeter thick (WIRED). An optional Naim sound system adds 1,780 watts across 28 speakers, including seat shakers, with Dolby Atmos 7.1 support, and a "Refresh" drive mode dims the screens and adjusts lighting and airflow for what Bentley calls a more invigorating cabin environment (WIRED).
At 4,983mm long, the Torcal is 161mm shorter than the Bentayga, yet it still packs a 460-liter boot with an additional 90-liter front storage compartment (WIRED; Bentley Media). For context, WIRED notes the Torcal costs more than the Range Rover Electric, which starts around $138,000 in the U.S. with similar range; a closer price match is the Range Rover Electric Autobiography, at roughly $208,000.
The Porsche connection and Bentley's design language
The Torcal is not a clean-sheet Bentley underneath. It rides on an enhanced version of Volkswagen Group's Premium Platform Electric, the same PPE architecture that underpins the Porsche Cayenne Electric, and shares that car's 800-volt system and 108-kWh usable battery capacity, according to Car and Driver. "We made use of the Porsche PPE 41 C platform," a Bentley product executive told The Independent, confirming the shared engineering directly.
Visually, the Torcal is the first production Bentley to wear the brand's recently redesigned winged emblem, per Car and Driver. Bentley says the design language introduced here, inside and out, will carry forward into future hybrid and combustion models regardless of powertrain, a point the company's own launch materials describe as making the Torcal "a template for future Bentleys," cited by WIRED. Bentley built the car in Crewe, which the company describes as a significant investment in British manufacturing, according to Bentley Media.
What's still unresolved
First customer deliveries are expected in the second quarter of 2027, Bentley told The Independent. U.S. pricing has not been finalized, though Car and Driver reports the Torcal will start under $230,000 when it arrives stateside as a 2028 model early next year.
That leaves the two figures that matter most to American buyers, price and EPA-certified range, still open. The performance and charging numbers so far come entirely from Bentley's own testing, and every outlet covering the launch has flagged that independent verification is pending. Whether the Torcal actually breaks the pattern of soft demand seen at Lamborghini, Mercedes and Rolls-Royce will depend less on what Bentley claims today and more on what reviewers, and paying customers, find once cars start reaching driveways.