The new electric Jaguar XJ will share a platform with Land Rover

The new electric Jaguar XJ will share a platform with Land Rover. It is called MLA and will be able to support hybrid, plug-in hybrid and pure electric models.

>The new electric Jaguar XJ will share a platform with Land Rover. The Jaguar XJ can lead the Jaguar's electrified range and become the flagship of these models and some sources echoed in early 2018 the possibility of a Jaguar XJ electric hit the market just as the model turned 50.

The rumours have resurfaced and during the presentation of the Investor Day at Jaguar Land Rover the new MLA platform, the same one on which the new Land Rover Defender 2020. Jaguar's new electrified saloon could also be fitted with it.

Nick Rogers, head of product engineering at Jaguar Land Rover, has said that electric cars built on the Jaguar Land Rover platform will The group's MLA electric cars will have 90.2 kWh batteries and could have a range of up to 400 kilometers according to the WLTP approval cycle.

The new Jaguar XJ could be developed on the MLA platform

This battery would be the same size as the current one Jaguar I-Pace which has its own platform and the same autonomy. It is said that the design of the New Jaguar XJ, the work of the very same Ian Callum, has already been approved. It would now have five doors like the Audi A7 and introduces a new design language for the brand.

Importantly Production of the current Jaguar XJ ends on July 5 at the Castle Bromwich facility, that could mean the new sedan could be ready to be "announced in the near future." It will be built at Jaguar Land Rover's plant in Solihull. In addition, the same platform for electric cars, MLA, is tasked with supporting a new road-focused Land Rover that will be called Road Rover.

Furthermore, in 2021, Range Rover to launch next-generation large SUV, as was pointed out during the Investor Day. It is worth mentioning that the Range Rover models will take full advantage of the MLA platform that is prepared to house hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electric models.

The Future Jaguar Land Rover plug-in hybrid models will have a 13.1 kWh battery which will offer a range of 50 kilometres. Range Rover is expected to launch its electric model a little later, taking the opposite course to Jaguar, because "Land Rover wants the first "Range Rover electric to be a stand-alone model."