You can join the waitlist for the first electric Range Rover today. You won’t know much about what you’re signing up for. But some people are just Rover fans and will be happy to know they have an option with its beloved British panache as the electric car era kicks off.
JLR (the company formerly known as Jaguar Land Rover) promises the model will be “the quietest and most refined Range Rover vehicle ever created, with a unique active road noise cancellation configuration and sound design, plus cabin comfort levels enabled by its electric underpinnings for serene modern luxury.”
The company offered no performance specifications but said to expect “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.”
A brief glimpse in a video on the registration page shows a car that looks much like the current Range Rover.
The car is built on an 800-volt architecture, much like the Porsche Taycan, suggesting rapid recharging times when paired with a DC fast charger. Most of today’s EVs can accept electricity only half as fast.
“Global on-road testing has started, from Sweden to Dubai, in temperatures ranging from -40C to +50C (minus 40 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit),” JLR says. That emphasis on temperature may seem unusual, but there’s good reason for it. Many electric vehicles (EVs) lose range at extreme temperatures. But a 2022 study found that JLR’s only current EV – the Jaguar I-Pace – lost less range than any other EV in extreme cold.
