Jaguar and Method E introduced a brand new partnership immediately to launch a brand new all-electric race collection to happen throughout the identical race weekends because the Method E championship.
The collection will use the I-Tempo, Jaguar’s upcoming first all-electric automobile.
It’s known as ‘The Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY ‘ and it’s designed as a ‘Arrive and Drive’ bundle supplied for as much as 20 drivers at every race, together with a distinct VIP Driver at each venue.
For the primary season beginning subsequent 12 months, there will likely be 10 races happening on the identical weekends on the identical metropolis circuits because the Method E races.
Alejandro Agag, Founder and CEO of Method E, stated in regards to the announcement:
“Jaguar has been a welcome addition to Method E and a implausible advocate for electrical avenue racing. I’m delighted that along with the Panasonic Jaguar Racing group competing on the Method E grid, we will likely be including to our race day schedule with a aggressive new assist collection for season 5. The Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY will convey extra leisure for followers in-between classes and will likely be an additional testomony to the advances in battery expertise and thrilling electrical efficiency. I hope Jaguar will permit me to convey my race swimsuit and helmet… and perhaps get behind the wheel myself!”
Jaguar says that the championship will assist the launch of the manufacturing model of the I-Tempo, which is anticipated to subsequent 12 months,
As we beforehand reported, the I-PACE is a sport SUV outfitted with a 90 kWh battery pack with a spread of “over 500 km” NEDC-rated. Apparently, the automaker has now confirmed “a focused vary of roughly 220 miles on EPA take a look at cycles”.
They launched a couple of photographs of the race model of the I-Tempo:
Electrek’s Take
We’re already fairly excited in regards to the I-Tempo as Jaguar’s first entry the all-electric automobile market. The automobile has already been praised for its design and its specs ought to make it a strong entry within the sport SUV phase.
The brand new race collection needs to be an fascinating method to showcase the automobile.
Method E had nice success, however the truth that drivers want to vary their vehicles in the course of the race did little to dispel EV-related points like vary nervousness.
Jaguar plans for the races to final solely half-hour so it shouldn’t be a problem for them they usually can get away with if it’s not the primary occasion.
Apparently, Jaguar appears to have overwhelmed Electrical GT to the punch. The race collection hoped to be the primary all-electric race championship with manufacturing electrical vehicles – utilizing the Tesla Mannequin S P100D, which is dubbed the “quickest manufacturing automobile on the planet.”
They have been alleged to launch this 12 months, however we haven’t heard a lot about them since they crashed their take a look at automobile.
As an alternative, it appears Jaguar may have the newest new entry within the electrical motorsport world as they declare that they are going to be “the world’s first all-electric worldwide race collection for production-based vehicles.”
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