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Jaguar Land Rover sees EV range gains with Formula E tech

Green Car Reports

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will use Formula E racing tech to improve efficiency and range in future production electric vehicles, with a partnership announced Monday. North Carolina-based Wolfspeed will provide silicon carbide semiconductor tech in future EVs, the automaker confirmed.

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Land Rovers Keep Catching Fire, But EVs Get Blamed For Luton Carpark Fire

CleanTechnica EVs

Land Rovers and Range Rovers occupy the same place that massive pickup trucks do in North American car culture. They are vastly outsized, overpowered, heavy machines which pretend to be working vehicles, but are remarkably often driven in cities to pick up lattes.

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Toyota Land Cruiser could spawn two new EVs to rival Mercedes, Land Rover

Baua Electric

The new EVs will broaden Toyota’s reach into new segments to rival brands like Mercedes and Land Rover. Toyota’s chief branding officer, Simon Humphries, said the automaker is “exploring new approaches to mobility” that enhance the Land Cruiser brand but also “further people’s freedom in motion.”

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Jaguar Land Rover delays two EVs as first electric Range Rover rolls out this year

Baua Electric

Jaguar Land Rover is pushing back the launch of two key electric models amid “surprising” demand for its plug-in hybrids. The announcement comes as the company is seeing strong interest in the first electric Range Rover after orders opened in December. JLR calls it the “most refined Range Rover ever created.”

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2024 McLaren 750S, 2024 Land Rover Defender: Today’s Car News

Baua Electric

Land Rover’s Defender enters the 2024 model year with some new features, including the addition of a V-8 option to the stretched Defender 130. McLaren has upgraded the 720S and rebranded it a 750S in the process. liter V-8 engine. You’ll find these stories and more in today’s car news, right here at Motor Authority.

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Jaguar Land Rover launches new mobility services technology business InMotion

Green Car Congress

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has launched InMotion , a new technology business that builds apps and on-demand services to overcome modern travel and transport challenges. It allows us to react quickly to new tech and ever-changing customer demands. —Adrian Hallmark, Group Strategy Director, Jaguar Land Rover.

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News: Jaguar Land Rover Partners with Nvidia to Create Software-Defined Cars

Clean Fleet Report

The middle of the decade is game changer time for Tata’s Jaguar Land Rover group as the company plans to launch a new generation of electrified vehicles that will rely a new Nvidia-based operating system. Given the computer being built in all of its new cars, Jaguar Land Rover should have a platform to execute on that strategy.