As we reported final week, Jaguar introduced two I-Tempo prototypes on the Los Angeles Auto Present – a yr after first unveiling the automobile on the identical present.
Now Jaguar elaborates on its check program and divulges that it presently operates “extra than 200 manufacturing prototypes” forward of its launch subsequent yr.
Ian Hoban, Jaguar Automobile Line Director, stated:
“After 1.5 million world check miles, the I-PACE is prepared for manufacturing and is confirmed to ship lengthy distances on a single cost. Jaguar’s first battery electrical automobile may even be quick to cost; our goal is a zero to 80 % cost being achievable in a brief break.”
That fast-charging remains to be primarily based on a 50 kW charger, in accordance to a press launch.
The British automaker confirmed that “hundreds of potential clients” expressed curiosity of their first all-electric automobile by urgent the ‘I would like one’ button on their web site.
They invited a number of of these individuals to affix Jaguar’s engineers on check drives of their prototype autos.
Ann Voyer from Pasadena, California was the primary fortunate potential buyer to be introduced alongside on a kind of rides.
She needed to know if the I-PACE would have sufficient vary to finish her favourite highway journey alongside California’s West Coast from Los Angeles’ Sundown Boulevard to Central California’s Morro Bay.
They produced a video about it:
As we beforehand reported, the I-PACE is a sport SUV geared up 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 check cycles”.
It apparently simply accomplished to 200-mile (322 km) highway journey.
Electrek’s Take
We’re fairly excited in regards to the I-Tempo for a number of causes.
First off, it simply seems like a pleasant automobile that occurs to be all-electric. Secondly, Jaguar has been hinting at the truth that it may truly be considerably fairly priced, which may make a vital affect on the trade if it’s actually the case.
The primary bummer is that Jaguar retains solely referring to 50 kW DC fast-charging, which is the present commonplace, however not what you’ll count on from a brand new electrical automobile popping out in 2018.
Hopefully, they’re solely referring to the velocity when charging at charging stations capped at 50 kW and that it isn’t the precise charging capability of the automobile.
We must always know extra in a number of months when Jaguar unveils the manufacturing model and opens its order ebook.
The automobile is then anticipated to enter manufacturing within the second half of 2018, which is another excuse why we’re excited for the I-Tempo: it’s going to be one of many first of a sequence of latest electrical autos constructed to be electrical from the bottom up coming from legacy automakers.
