Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), a subsidiary of India-based Tata Motors Limited, plans to invest £500m ($669 million) to revamp its electric vehicle (EV) factory in Halewood, a small town outside Liverpool. The plant will support more EV production, alongside existing combustion and hybrid models.
In the past year, JLR has already invested £250m ($333m) and one million hours of construction work into the project. The site has been expanded by 32,364sqm to accommodate the production of medium-sized electric luxury SUVs.
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The updated factory will house a new workshop that can make 500 car bodies per day, an automated storage tower that can hold 600 painted bodies and 40 new high-tech robots that help workers install high-voltage batteries. The factory will receive an additional £250m investment in the near future.
Barbara Bergmeier, executive director of JLR’s industrial operations, highlights that “Halewood will be [JLR’s] first all-electric production facility, and it is a testament to the brilliant efforts by [JLR’s] team and suppliers who have worked together to equip the plant with the technology needed to deliver [the company’s] world-class luxury electric vehicles.”
Trevor Leeks, the operations director at JLR Halewood, added that Halewood had been a car producer for sixty years and that, thanks to the new investment, it is now “set up for future generations to continue to create and deliver exceptional luxury vehicles for [JLR’s] clients.”
This investment is a key part of JLR’s Reimagine strategy. The company is aiming to make all of its brands electric by 2030. They also want to have no carbon emissions in their supply chain products and operations by 2039.
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By GlobalDataIn the future, Halewood will become JLR’s first factory to only produce electric vehicles.
