One year on from showing the I-PACE Concept at the LA Auto Show, Jaguar is back in Los Angeles with a production prototype for final range and durability tests ahead of its official global reveal in 2018.
Brian Joss – Potential customers have pressed the ‘I want one’ button on www.jaguar.co.za to place a deposit or register a strong interest in the hotly anticipated electric SUV.
Ann Voyer, a potential customer from Pasadena, California, asked Jaguar if the I-Pace would have enough range to complete her favourite road trip along California’s West Coast. To answer her question, Jaguar engineers took her on a long-distance range test – on one charge only. The I-Pace production prototype drove 322 kilometres from Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, to Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, on a single charge of its advanced Lithium-Ion battery.
Ian Hoban, Jaguar Vehicle Line Director, said: “After 1.5 million global test miles, the I-Pace is ready for production and is proven to deliver long distances on a single charge. Jaguar’s first battery electric vehicle will also be fast to charge; our target is a zero to 80 per cent charge being achievable in a short break.”
Full specification and pricing for Jaguar’s electric performance SUV will be announced late in 2018 when order books will officially open in South Africa.
