Jaguar Land Rover To Announce Major EV Investment For Its Castle Bromwich Factory

Jaguar Land Rover will reportedly announce this week its plans to build three new electric vehicles at the Castle Bromwich plant in the UK.

The Sunday Times report that the all-electric version of the next generation XJ sedan will be the first one of the three new EVs. JLR will use a common platform for all three planned electric vehicles, with the electric XJ to be followed by an SUV, which will most likely be the next Range Rover.

The British carmaker has already announced some details about its future products, including its electric models which will use a 90.2kWh battery pack, giving them a driving range of up to 292 miles (470km).

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The Modular Longitudinal Architecture (MLA) will also spawn plug-in hybrid variants with an EV range of up to 31 miles (50km) and a smaller 13.1kWh battery. Jaguar even teased the possibility to offer a battery-electric version of the next F-Type, which if true will complete the trio of EVs quite nicely (executive saloon, luxury SUV and sports car).

Choosing Castle Bromwich for the production of JLR’s upcoming battery-electric vehicles will require an investment in the “hundreds of millions of pounds”. This is certainly good news for the British automotive industry, which has been battling with Brexit issues and various factory closures and its future is quite uncertain right now.

The 2,500 workers at the JLR’s Birmingham factory have recently agreed to work on a four-day week basis, while Castle Bromwich will reportedly have to shut for six weeks in order to retool the production line for the new models.