Range Rover has unveiled its first fully electric model, after a year\u2011long delay to its planned launch.<\/p>\n
The Range Rover Electric, to be built in Solihull, marks a major shift in its electrification programme, backed by large\u2011scale upgrades across its West Midlands sites.<\/p>\n
Parent company JLR said it had up-skilled 10,500 workers for electric production as it pushes ahead with modernisation despite recent financial pressures<\/a> and planned job cuts.<\/a><\/p>\n The launch comes as the Coventry\u2011based carmaker faces falling profits, supply chain disruption and restructuring following a cyber attack last year. <\/p>\n The company said the launch was being supported by new battery and electric drive unit production lines as well as training around 9,000 employees in Solihull for electrification and a further 1,500 trained across the region.<\/p>\n JLR’s Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton is now producing battery packs and electric drive units alongside internal combustion engines.<\/p>\n Martin Limpert, managing director of Range Rover, called the new model the result of a decade of “considered engineering”. <\/p>\n