Waiting list opens for new Range Rover Electric

Range Rover has opened the waiting list for its all-electric model - which will arrive in 2024 - ahead of orders opening to customers.

The manufacturer has revealed a handful of teaser pictures of the car, showing extreme close-ups of its trim and grille, and says Range Rover Electric will deliver performance comparable to a flagship Range Rover V8.

Thomas Muller, executive director, product engineering at JLR, said: “We are on target to create the quietest and most refined Range Rover ever created.

“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.”

Physical prototype testing is underway for the new model after a year of virtual development spanning front-end robustness, multi-body systems analysis that considers the demand on the chassis and virtual wading at up to 31mph.

Global on-road testing has started, from Sweden to Dubai, in temperatures ranging from -40C to +50C.

New Range Rover Electric will be designed, engineered and built in the United Kingdom, on the flexible Modular Longitudinal Architecture in Solihull, alongside existing mild and plug-in hybrid Range Rover vehicles.

Batteries and EDUs will be built and assembled JLR’s new Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton as Range Rover electrifies ahead of its 2039 net-zero carbon ambition.