Jaguar Land Rover suspends production of several models due to parts shortages
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Jaguar Land Rover is facing parts shortages and will suspend the production of Land Rover Discovery, Evoque, Velar, and Jaguar XE, XF, F-Pace, and I-Pace in September.
Production will continue with the Jaguar F-Type, Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Defender.
The I-Pace assembled by Magna International in Graz, Austria, is its only fully electric model, and production will stop while demand for electric cars is surging.
As petrol engines are phased out by 2025, Jaguar hinted that it will develop its more upscale BEV with a contractor rather than in the Midlands.
The next pure-electric Land Rover vehicles are expected to arrive in the second part of this decade, with a smaller electric Jaguar model possibly produced in the UK.
A variant of the internally developed Magna platform, which is shared with US EV company Fisker, is expected to be used as JLR was unable to adapt the LR and RR electric vehicle platform for its larger Jaguar model.