Jaguar Land Rover has opened the waiting list for people who want to have one of the first fully electric Range Rovers, due in 2024. Meanwhile, the extensive testing phase for the prototypes has started, and JLR gives a glimpse of what we can expect.

“With more patents anticipated to be filed for New Range Rover Electric than any other Range Rover before, prototypes are now being subjected to one of the most rigorous engineering sign-off programs ever to confirm capability spanning extreme temperatures, all conditions, and every terrain, with, of course, wading through up to 850 mm deep water,” boasts the press release.

“Because of this unprecedented success story, we’re now opening the official waiting list for the opportunity to be among the first to place a pre-order for the most anticipated Range Rover of recent times,” explains Geraldine Ingham, Range Rover’s Managing Director. “Marking a new era for the Range Rover brand: the original luxury SUV is now available as an all-electric model.”

Quiet, comfortable, and luxurious

“We are on target to create the quietest and most refined Range Rover ever created,” says Thomas Müller, Executive Director of Product Engineering at JLR. “The magic ingredients that underpin the success of Range Rover remain unchanged: timeless, reductionist design, a serene cabin, and go-anywhere capability, but now offered with zero tailpipe emissions.”

“And as repeated throughout history, the Range Rover will continue to set the standard. The first of its type. An electric luxury SUV that can deliver on the Range Rover promise. A true global luxury product, as yet unseen in the industry,” he adds.

The electric Range Rover will have a unique active road noise cancellation configuration and sound design, plus cabin comfort levels enabled by its electric underpinnings “for serene modern luxury”. To attract potential customers, Range Rover offers a first glimpse of this Range Rover Electric, with subtle cues hinting at its all-electric drive.

Made in the UK

“The Range Rover Electric will deliver performance comparable to a flagship Range Rover V8 and the all-terrain capability developed in-house by Land Rover experts that has been a hallmark since Range Rover’s inception in 1970,” promises the press release. The car will also have an 800 V architecture to charge rapidly on public networks.

The new Range Rover Electric will be designed, engineered, and built in Solihull, United Kingdom, alongside existing mild and plug-in hybrid Range Rover vehicles, as a new £70 million (€81,4 million) underbody facility opens at the plant.

For the first time, batteries and EDUs will be built and assembled at JLR’s new Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Center in Wolverhampton as Range Rover electrifies ahead of its 2039 net-zero carbon ambition.