Tata group owned, JLR has announced its collaboration with India’s Agratas to source packs that will give EVs a range of up to 450 miles / 720 kilometres.
Agratas is owned by JLR parent company Tata, which is looking at both the UK and Spain as a location to build a cell plant in Europe.
Batteries are expected to initially come from a plant in Gujarat, India after Tata signed a deal with the state in early June to build a cell plant there with an initial capacity of 20GWh.
JLR or formerly called Jaguar Land Rover told attendees of the company’s investor day that batteries from Agratas would have a much higher energy density than those in the Jaguar I-Pace – currently the company’s only EV.
The new batteries would give 120kWh from 342 litres of cell capacity, compared with 84kWh from 387 litres in the I-Pace pack, said JLR’s head of product engineering, Thomas Müller.
The pack size would give a range of up to 450 miles / 720km in the EMA Ultra Range pack, Müller said.
EMA is the new EV architecture that will underpin smaller Range Rover, Discovery and possible Defender models in the future.
JLR has already said the electric Jaguar would have a range of 434 miles (694km).
