While the electric luxury SUV market continues to grow with models from all sorts of different automakers, it seems an electric Land Rover Defender isn’t coming anytime soon.Land Rover’schief ...
Jaguar Land Rover confirmed that an electric Defender is in the works. However, as the EV model requires “a significant step in the evolution of the Defender,” it may take some time before we ...
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Hoornik added that Jaguar Land Rover is committed to said promise, meaning that an electric Defender should be in the offing by decade's end. "The EV will need to come at quite a significant step ...
Jaguar Land Rover Chief Commercial Officer Lennard Hoornik spoke with Autocar about the British automaker's efforts to go EV on its SUV. "The L663 [current Defender] is brilliant at what it does ...
Land Rover has acknowledged it’ll ... Hoornik went on to emphasize how difficult it is to fit the necessary EV components into the existing Defender’s architecture. The problem isn’t just ...
It’s no different for companies converting classic vehicles to EVs, and few have gotten the blend as good as Zero Labs with its latest 1974 Land Rover ... the modern Defender, EV battery be ...
Defender is already offered with PHEV but "it's not easy to find the extra space" needed for more batteries As Autocar’s chief car tester and reviewer, it’s Matt’s job to ensure the quality ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. The current-generation Defender (L663) will not get an EV powertrain. The Defender EV will be based on the next-gen ...
and it sounds like there’s just no room to fit all of the stuff required of an EV. Land Rover can’t even fit its six-cylinder PHEV in the Defender, having to use a four-cylinder instead.