Thread: Jaguar Land Rover goes hybrid electric

That's interesting. So what does that mean for the Defender that is supposed to be coming soon to a showroom near you.....in 2020.

Originally Posted by cripesamighty

That's interesting. So what does that mean for the Defender that is supposed to be coming soon to a showroom near you.....in 2020.

Probably the end of the multi gear transmission as we know it. One electric motor/generator combo with a modest size battery for stop start driving and regenerative braking use.

Certainly could explain the delay in releasing a new Defender.
I'm unclear about the exact meaning myself. Does it mean no more diesels or petrols, or does it mean there will be electric versions of every vehicle?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Certainly could explain the delay in releasing a new Defender.
I'm unclear about the exact meaning myself. Does it mean no more diesels or petrols, or does it mean there will be electric versions of every vehicle?

"Hybrid electric" means a fuel engine of some sort plus the electric package so I doubt that petrol and diesel engines are going to be extinct just yet.

I think this means all cars will have electric motor of some sort. Hybrid cars are now well develloped and work great with proven benefits complementing the combustion engine for efficiency, accelleration and braking. Electric cars are not quite there yet to make the combustion engine redundant.

Thanks for the heads up Disco Mick ...exciting that the next Defender could be electric or hybrid. A 2018 Defender is looking very unlikely I reckon. It will 2020...and it will be radical. Possibly explains the delay.

I assume they want the engine packages for LRs to be right to continue for some time and be usable across the whole JLR range so they will want to get the Defender engines right from the start.
I read the Ingenium engines are modular so I assume the 2.0 diesel will also be scaled up to 2.5 and 3.0 and packaged with an electric motor for economy.
That would also overcome the objections to electric based on long distance travel.
So there would still be high and low ranges.

I assume they want their own family of advanced engines to pair with the electrics. They also have to meet the coming even tougher emissions rules and improve the overall fuel economy of the whole vehicle range.
Emissions are a big deal in Europe. In the UK alone, about 10,000 people a year die from causes related to vehicle emissions (in Australia it's about 2000), so that's a big deal - far more serious than road deaths. Similar situation in the USA and China, their big markets, whose governments are responding by cracking down on vehicle emissions, which is why the VW emissions scandal touched a raw nerve.
We in Australia are behind the curve on vehicle emissions, but we will be forced to follow world trends.