Waymo is preparing to provide rides in Jaguars I-Pace autonomous electric cars to the general public, the company announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The vehicles will operate in San Francisco under a program called the Waymo Trusted Tester. Nick Collins, executive director, Vehicle Programs, Jaguar Land Rover, told Auto Express the first prototypes of the Jaguars new EV, which is based on the Special Purpose Platform, will begin on-road testing in two months time (as reported June 15, 2022).
One of three new Jaguar electric SUVs will be a range-topping executive model, similar to the Jaguar Land Rover Sport. The three new Jaguar electric SUVs will share a custom-built platform, the Panthera, and a production line at Jaguar Land Rovers Solihull factory. Jaguar said that by 2025, Jaguar would be offering three new battery-electric SUVs built around the Panthera platform. Autocar reports that Jaguar, under its plans for reinvention, is developing a special-purpose EV chassis, which it has called the Panthera.
By now, the companys supposedly shaping those cars around an electric platform underneath. The new range promises to make Jaguars feel even more premium, and three models of the SUV-electric crossover are going to push Jaguar further into Bentley territory, writes Autocar. The three electric SUV crossover models will use Jaguars Panthera-based proprietary BEV platform, and are designed to break the PS100,000 price barrier. Jaguars current lone, but highly-sold, EV, the I-Pace, is expected to be the last of its kind, but it is separated from the new range.
Meanwhile, Jaguar plans to move towards an all-electric vehicle by 2025, with no new model launches for both the XE and XF sedans. Rumours are the larger Jaguar sedans are gone, SUV emphasis will shift back towards brand-sister Land Rover, and Jaguar will now concentrate on electric sports cars and a smaller crossover to compete with Teslas Model 3 and Polestar 2. In the next five years, struggling luxury brand Jaguar is set for a revival as a fully electric luxury brand.
LONDON – Struggling luxury car brand Jaguar will go all-electric by 2025, a British firm said on Feb. 15, as it laid out its plans for ditching the internal combustion engine. The British firm also said that far-profitable Land Rover brand will make its first fully electric models in 2024, as it too phases out internal combustion engines. Jaguar Land Rovers will unveil its new design language for the new-generation, all-electric models at a popular global motor show, possibly with an almost-production concept, the report said, in late 2024.
JLR has been working with the BMW Group to design Electric Drive Units (EDUs), but as Jaguars brand is striving to create a distinctive design identity in the realm of luxury cars, an in-house developed platform will be non-negotiable. The Jaguar F Type is based on battery-electric crossover mini-luxury crossovers, with 5-door SUV styling. It is built on JLRs D7e platform, with the layout being four-wheel-drive with two engines.
The Jaguar I-Pace is certainly a car that can be used every day without any issues, and it remains one of the best electric cars to drive, with excellent balance and feedback which belies its size and weight. The I-Pace is one of the only electric, compact luxury SUVs on the market, so it costs quite a bit, in a $60k-$80k range. While that price is not suited to a cheap buyer, it is still among the cheapest cars out there in terms of all the electric luxury SUVs.
Since it is an all-electric vehicle, Jaguars I Pace comes equipped with twin permanent magnet sync motors and 90kW-h Li-ion batteries. Using dedicated, single-phase (7.4kW) EV charging, the I-PACE EV can fully recharge in 12.75 hours (22 miles range from 60 minutes). Jags first SUV EV offers 292-mile range, with a maximum range of 78 miles on a 15-minute charge.
As I noted earlier, Jags first all-electric car, the I-Pace, is a multi-award-winning EV SUV. The Jaguar I-Pace, launched four years ago, remains one of the best EVs to drive, but it is still the only fully electric car from the company. With exactly one electric vehicle on production, Jaguar is still dependent on sales from the F-Pace SUV and E-Pace, both of which are available as a plug-in hybrid. The Jaguar I-PACE has been designed to allow wireless charging technology by U.S. tech developer Momentum Dynamics, making it an ideal vehicle for a program known as ElectriCity.
Developed in partnership with Magna, who built I-PACE for Jaguar, the platform will have an 800-volt architecture, advanced electric motors, very recent motor designs, cloud-based connectivity, and sufficient computing power to enable the possibility of enhanced autonomous driving features.
It is a far cry from the slim, I-Pace, which might not be the best electric car on the market, but it is mighty pretty. It is possible the production-spec I-Pace could be an improvement over the performance of the concept, or that Jaguar could beat the $85,500 base price of Teslas Model X. Nick Collins has also said the first fully-new Jaguar EV will make its debut before the end of 2024, with sales commencing in 2025.
