Yep......gotta remember the new defender isn't being design for aus or africa or even overlanding. It's going to be a tough looking SUV for city streets.
Than us that want to tour with will need to somehow make it work.
This asks an interesting question that is sure to horrify some....
All Land Rovers to be electric or hybrid after 2020...including new Defender? | 4x4 Practical Motoring
Could they possibly give us a hybrid Defender?
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Mark
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Yep......gotta remember the new defender isn't being design for aus or africa or even overlanding. It's going to be a tough looking SUV for city streets.
Than us that want to tour with will need to somehow make it work.
It's 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. We can't avoid tech advances and this would really put Land Rover at the forefront if they can use hybrid initially to solve the range issues of electric.
Man I hope they're looking at four independent electric hub motors with what amounts to a diesel generator providing the juice. Lots of challenges there but the off-road potential is exciting. The Defender should be all about torque rather than power and electric is perfect for that. Exhibit A:
Diesel locomotive - Wikipedia
The intel on the next Defender that I heard today from someone at Land Rover who's had contact with someone on the inner sanctum, contradicts the 2020 hybrid notion and my post above.
...apparently the next Defender is currently being tested ...for release in mid-late 2018.
The hybrid / electric announcement is actually re all new Land Rover vehicles developed from 2020 onwards.
Which means that the 2018 Defender will most likely be ingenium diesel.
4x4practical motoring has nothing whatsoever to do with Land Rover , although they publish unsubstantiated rumours about Land Rover.
Land Rover have not released any information on the new defender.
True - no one said 4x4 Practical motoring was connected with Land Rover... however the articles author - Robert Pepper is a very well respected author, with a strong connection to Land Rover and I know for a fact he doesn't publish articles without thorough research.
Of all the stuff I see written by motoring journo's in this country - Rob is one of very few that I'd take at face value...
Mark
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most
2015 TDV6 D4.... the latest project... Llams, Traxide, Icom 455, Tuffant Kimberleys and Mofos.... so far.
2012 SDV6 SE D4 with some stuff... gone...
2003 D2a TD5...gone...
2000 D2 V8...gone...
https://bymark.photography
4x4 Practical Motoring, Robert Pepper ...yes, for Land Rover vehicles designed after 2020.
Maybe not at release,but it will have to eventually go hybrid,cos thats the way they are all going.
You wouldn't design a completely new vehicle today and not think about going hybrid.
Even D5 has space allocated to batteries,although not yet released as hybrid.
Same as this solid axle stuff,old hat.
LR would be seen as going backwards,if they built a completely new vehicle in todays world with solid axles.
I know that would be better,in some ways,and simpler,and the purists would like it,but they seem to love to complicate things.
Just my 2 cents worth,we will have to wait and see.
Paul
D2,D2,D2a,D4,'09 Defender 110(sons), all moved on.
'56 S1,been in the family since...'56
Comes out of hibernation every few months for a run
Interesting.
Electric cars are about to get their biggest boost ever – ThinkProgress
Thoughts?
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