Jaguar Land-Rover (JLR) has announced plans to accelerate its electric-first future, revealing its Halewood plant, in the UK, will become an all-electric production facility.

Not only this, but the company’s Engine Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton, which currently produces Ingenium internal combustion engines, will be renamed to the Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre and produce electric drive units and battery packs for JLR’s next gen vehicles.

In an update to global media at JLR’s centre in Gaydon, Chief Executive Adrian Mardell reaffirmed the business’s commitment to its Reimagine strategy, which will reposition the company as an electric-first, modern luxury carmaker by 2030.

Announcing news of its next-generation electrification roadmap, the company has also stated its next-generation medium-size SUV architecture, electrified modular architecture (EMA), will now be pure electric.

“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.”

the first model boasting the new and improved tech will hale from the Range Rover family, of which JLR will open client orders later this year.

While EMA will now be electric only, as the trend to electrification in certain markets increases, JLR will retain the flexible modular longitudinal architecture (MLA) on which Range Rover and Range Rover Sport are built offering internal combustion engine (ICE), HYBRID and battery electric vehicle (BEV) options.

Source: Jaguar Land Rover | JLR to invest £15 billion over next five years as its modern luxury electric-first future accelerates

4 May 2023