Jaguar Land Rover will look to cut approximately 2,000 salaried jobs in the next financial year.
Shortly after announcing that it will transition to an EV-only brand, the company started briefing employees about its plans for a reorganization. It remains to be seen which specific jobs will be cut but Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed the job cuts will not affect hourly manufacturing workers. The company currently has 37,000 employees of which 30,000 are in the UK, Auto News notes.
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Jaguar Land Rover’s new chief executive, Thierry Bolloré, only joined the company in September from Renault and is already embarking on a plan that will likely make or break the car manufacturer in the decade to come.
In addition to transforming Jaguar into an all-electric brand by 2025, Land Rover will be selling six pure-EV models by 2026, the first of which will land in 2024. Bolloré also made the decision to kill the next-generation electric XJ that is thought to have only been 12-18 months away from production.
“Jaguar Land Rover is unique in the global automotive industry,” Bolloré said when first announcing the new strategy. Designers of peerless models, an unrivaled understanding of the future luxury needs of its customers, emotionally rich brand equity. The Reimagine strategy allows us to enhance and celebrate that uniqueness like never before. Together, we can design an even more sustainable and positive impact on the world around us.”
All future Jaguar models will be underpinned by a single platform whereas Land Rover will use two versions of a Modular Longitudinal Architecture that supports both electrified internal combustion engines and pure EVs. JLR has also committed to exploring hydrogen fuel cell technologies and wants to begin trialing hydrogen vehicles on UK roads within the next 12 months.
