Jaguar Land Rover says its Halewood site is going all electric - and that the plant will soon start building a new all-electric Range Rover.
JLR today announced a £15bn transformation plan to help the company focus more on electric vehicles as the world continues to move away from fossil fuels. It says the Halewood site would become an “all-electric manufacturing facility” - the company's first all -electric site.
And it said its first next-generation medium-size modern luxury SUV would be an all-electric vehicle in the Range Rover family that will be built at Halewood. The vehicle will launch in 2025 and the company will start taking pre-orders later this year.
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The group says the investment in Halewood “further affirms JLR’s commitment to the future of the UK car industry”. JLR employs some 3,500 people directly at Halewood, with thousands more working in the supply chain around the plant.
Chief executive Adrian Mardell said the Reimagine Strategy would help JLR towards becoming an electric-first, modern luxury carmaker by 2030.
He said: “Two years ago, we launched our Reimagine strategy and since then we have made great progress, including launching two new critically acclaimed modern luxury Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models, joining the Defender family, for which there is record demand.
“We achieved this while navigating the headwinds of the pandemic and chip shortages, and successfully ramping up production of our most profitable models to deliver profit in Q3. Today I am proud to announce we are accelerating our electrification path, making one of our UK plants and our next-generation medium-size luxury SUV architecture fully electric.
“This investment enables us to deliver our modern luxury electric future, developing new skills, and reaffirming our commitment to be net zero carbon by 2039.”
He added: “With Range Rover, the original luxury SUV, available for pre-order in pure electric form later this year, and the first of three breath-taking electric reimagined Jaguar models to be launched in 2025, we are stepping into an incredibly exciting new electric era for JLR as a modern luxury business.”
The group says the first of three reimagined modern luxury electric Jaguars will be a four-door GT built in Solihull, West Midlands. More details will be released later this year, before the car goes on sale in selected markets in 2024, for client deliveries in 2025.
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