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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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Jaguar & Land Rover EV Drivers In UK Get Charging Boost From Plugsurfing

CleanTechnica EVs

If you own a plug-in electric hybrid or fully electric Jaguar or Land Rover in the UK, there is some good news. JLR has partnered with Plugsurfing to offer easy access to its charging network. Owners will now have access to a network of over 300,000 charging points reaching across 27 countries and 700 separate […].

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Exclusive: Massimo Frascella, design director of Jaguar Land Rover quits the company | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Having completed a transportation design degree at Institute D’Arte Applicata & Design in 1997, Frascella started his career in Turin. He has played a pivotal role in the design evolution of each of these much-loved British marques.

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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. —Adrian Hallmark, Group Strategy Director, Jaguar Land Rover. It allows us to react quickly to new tech and ever-changing customer demands.

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Waymo, Jaguar Land Rover in long-term partnership, beginning with self-driving Jaguar I-PACE EV; up to 20,000 in first two years of production

Green Car Congress

Jaguar Land Rover and Waymo announced a long-term strategic partnership under which the two companies will develop premium self-driving electric vehicles for Waymo’s driverless transportation service. Jaguar Land Rover is committed to investing heavily in autonomous, connected and future electrified technologies.

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Jaguar Land Rover in two UK projects worth ~$16M to advance connected and autonomous vehicle technology

Green Car Congress

Jaguar Land Rover is participating in two new projects in the UK worth a combined £11 million (US$15.7 million) UK-CITE (UK Connected Intelligent Transport Environment) project will create the first test route capable of testing both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure systems on public roads in the UK.

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Jaguar Land Rover showcases remote-control and autonomous 180? turn technologies

Green Car Congress

Jaguar Land Rover is showcasing two of the prototype technologies that its UK-based research team are developing to deliver autonomous driving in the future: remote control via smartphone and autonomous multi-point turning. Wolfgang Epple, Director of Research and Technology, Jaguar Land Rover. Multi-Point Turns.