Electrification and luxury cars go together like silk and a good suit, unlocking absurd levels of refinement, effortless performance and near-total serenity. When you're attempting a hostile takeover of a multi-billion dollar company while pathologically tweeting about it, there's no better place to do it from than the lounge-like rear seats of the Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV or the Cadillac Escalade IQ.
Now British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover, too, is making its biggest electrification push yet, with four new all-electric models on the way, the latest of which is the new Range Rover GT. It will be the fifth addition to the Range Rover portfolio after the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Velar and Evoque. JLR's other three EVs in the pipeline include the Range Rover Electric, Range Rover Sport Electric, and the polarizing Jaguar Type 01.
The upcoming Range Rover Sport Electric will arrive sooner, but it's based on a platform designed to support ICE vehicles. The GT will use a native, software-defined EV platform.
Photo by: Land Rover
The GT will debut an all-new, ground-up software-defined-vehicle platform called the Electrified Modular Architecture (EMA). That's different from what underpins the Range Rover Electric and the Sport Electric, which get the flexible Modular Longitudinal Architecture (MLA), which also supports combustion and plug-in hybrid drivetrains. EMA will be BEV-native and also support future conventional hybrids.
