March 29, 2024

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Jaguar J-Pace large electric SUV likely axed as part of new strategy

Jaguar has axed options for its much-rumoured all-electric J-Pace luxurious SUV as component of the British brand’s new ‘Reimagine’ enterprise plan, that will see the business grow to be an EV-only maker by 2025.

Jaguar Land Rover’s new manager, Thierry Bolloré, confirmed that the all-electric XJ big saloon car was no longer component of the firm’s long run strategy, with Jaguar shifting in direction of a bespoke electric automobile architecture.

Each the XJ – which was in the remaining stages of its advancement and cancelled at the eleventh hour – and the J-Pace had been to be dependent on JLR’s MLA Modular Longitudinal Architecture platform that can be utilised for entirely electric, plug-in hybrid and gentle-hybrid cars. On the other hand, this platform will now be utilised by Land Rover. 

The XJ identify may possibly not die completely although, with Jaguar stating that the nameplate “may be retained.”

Bolloré highlighted that Jaguar “will be incredibly different. The SUV will be Land Rover.” Long run Jaguars will therefore much more probably get the condition of crossovers, with the proposed proportions and total styling of the all-electric selection from 2025 established to determine Jaguar’s new, bespoke EV platform.

It is distinct from the news that Jaguar’s administration is proposing to much more noticeably distance itself from sister brand Land Rover, with proposed big SUVs like the J-Pace a casualty of the new strategy.

It doesn’t indicate JLR will sideline a big, luxurious electric SUV completely as there are options for a pure-EV version of the new fifth-technology Selection Rover, established to start afterwards this yr. 

An electric variant of the iconic SUV will arrive in 2024 as component of the new enterprise plan, a single of 6 entirely electric Land Rovers to strike the market place over the upcoming 5 a long time, affirming JLR’s determination to offer you an EV model of each and every nameplate in the two brands’ line-ups by the conclude of the decade.

Component of this will be the use of the Electric powered Modular Architecture (EMA) platform that will also guidance electrified versions of interior combustion engined types.

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