As a man of action, Rolls provided a charging station at his car showroom in Fulham, England for the private or rentable electric Broughams that were proving popular at the time.
In 1904, Rolls would agree to become the agent for the Contal Electromobile, but on meeting his future co-founder Sir Henry Royce and seeing what he had built, Rolls canceled the agreement.
Rolls and Royce would become forever intertwined, creating the company that would give us masterpieces like the Phantom and the now-dead two-door duo of the Wraith and the Dawn. Sadly, neither man would live to build a viable production electric vehicle, but 120 years on from Rolls’ prophetic words, the electric RR is finally on the way.