Land Rover I-pace ‘possible’
A SENIOR source at Land Rover has suggested the company could develop its own bespoke electric car as a sister vehicle to the Jaguar I-pace.
The all-electric Jaguar (right) is scheduled to go on sale next year, some way ahead of Land Rover’s electrification plans.
Jaguar Land Rover’s global sales operations director Andy Goss told us: “We need to get the plug-in hybrids sorted first, and there’s not a Land Rover BEV [pure-electric vehicle] at the moment, but could there be one? Of course. There’s no reason why not.” Goss also stated that a Land Rover EV would need to be a standalone model, like the I-pace, instead of a version of a conventionally powered vehicle.
“Can you have a car that’s internal combustion engine and pure-ev? That’s tricky,” he said. “You need an architecture that’s tailored to batteries because putting cells on to a platform that also works for a regular engine is possible, but tough.”
“Land Rover EV would need to be a standalone model”