This is not the car company Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce Motor Company is a subsidiary of BMW. Rolls-Royce plc is the historic brand and manufacturers jet engines, power turbines, and some other similar systems.
No. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is an entity created out of thin air by BMW in 1998. The only connection to historic Rolls Royce is that Rolls-Royce PLC allowed them to use the name and identifiable characteristics like the Spirit of Ecstasy, the RR logo, and the upright grille. Everything about the cars is a facsimile of traditional Rolls Royce - a very convincing facsimile, but a facsimile nonetheless.
Not really. The legacy of the old cars lives on in current day Bentley through mergers and acquisitions after RR was nationalized then re-privatized . The aerospace company is the only remaining part of the original Rolls-Royce company. The cars being made today are from a BMW brand that only started in 2003.
The Rolls-Royce SMR, also known as the UK SMR,^([1]) is a small modular reactor (SMR) design being developed by the Rolls-Royce (RR) company in the United Kingdom.
The company has been given financial support by the UK Government to develop its design. In 2019 it was estimated that the 470 MWe units would cost around £1.8 billion, or £3.3 billion per GW, once in full production. By comparison, the planned 3,200 MWe Sizewell C is projected to cost £35 billion,^([2]) or £10.3 billion per GW. Construction time and site size needed would also be lower.
In 2020 the original target cost for a 470 MWe Rolls-Royce SMR unit was £1.8 billion for the fifth unit built,^([33]) or around £3.8 million per MWe. As a comparison the estimated cost for the full-size 3.3 GWe Sizewell C nuclear power station was £22 billion, or around £6.7 million per MWe.^([10]) In 2024, the SMR cost was expected to be between £2 billion and £3 billion.^([26])
hnwy@reddit
Can you fit this in a Miata?
Borchov@reddit
This is not the car company Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce Motor Company is a subsidiary of BMW. Rolls-Royce plc is the historic brand and manufacturers jet engines, power turbines, and some other similar systems.
V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit
Same thing in Mitsubishi, some people still thought Mitsubishi Motor as part of Mitsubishi group.
SwissMargiela@reddit
Tbf they use the same logo lol
Drone30389@reddit
Well they're both the historic brand.
strongmanass@reddit
No. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is an entity created out of thin air by BMW in 1998. The only connection to historic Rolls Royce is that Rolls-Royce PLC allowed them to use the name and identifiable characteristics like the Spirit of Ecstasy, the RR logo, and the upright grille. Everything about the cars is a facsimile of traditional Rolls Royce - a very convincing facsimile, but a facsimile nonetheless.
Borchov@reddit
Not really. The legacy of the old cars lives on in current day Bentley through mergers and acquisitions after RR was nationalized then re-privatized . The aerospace company is the only remaining part of the original Rolls-Royce company. The cars being made today are from a BMW brand that only started in 2003.
TzarKazm@reddit
War. war never changes. I can't wait for my Corvega.
Drzhivago138@reddit
April Fool's jokes just come across as tiresome in a post-truth world.
reddit455@reddit
i don't think it's a joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_SMR
The Rolls-Royce SMR, also known as the UK SMR,^([1]) is a small modular reactor (SMR) design being developed by the Rolls-Royce (RR) company in the United Kingdom.
The company has been given financial support by the UK Government to develop its design. In 2019 it was estimated that the 470 MWe units would cost around £1.8 billion, or £3.3 billion per GW, once in full production. By comparison, the planned 3,200 MWe Sizewell C is projected to cost £35 billion,^([2]) or £10.3 billion per GW. Construction time and site size needed would also be lower.
In 2020 the original target cost for a 470 MWe Rolls-Royce SMR unit was £1.8 billion for the fifth unit built,^([33]) or around £3.8 million per MWe. As a comparison the estimated cost for the full-size 3.3 GWe Sizewell C nuclear power station was £22 billion, or around £6.7 million per MWe.^([10]) In 2024, the SMR cost was expected to be between £2 billion and £3 billion.^([26])
boomerangchampion@reddit
It's not a joke but it has nothing to do with cars, it's not even the same Rolls Royce really.
videopro10@reddit
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/More-funding-for-Rolls-Royce-space-microreactor
mcbergstedt@reddit
Funny enough, Rolls Royce (PLC, not the car company) made some of the software for the nuclear plant I work at.
Ipad207@reddit
In terms of radiation, Rolls Royce reports no more than 3.6 Roentgen. I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest X-ray.
TurboSalsa@reddit
Is that…great? Or terrible.
et_hornet@reddit
I can’t tell if this is April fools or not lol
unatleticodemadrid@reddit
Starlight headliner in the control rooms?