Range Rover goes electric

Jaguar Land Rover opened orders for its fully electric Range Rover on Wednesday as the British carmaker seeks growth a year after a cyberattack shut down production.

Prices start at £154,070 in Britain. JLR plans to build between 12,000 and 15,000 units over the next six months at its Solihull factory in central England.

The model can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in 4.3 seconds and has a range of up to 372 miles, or about 599 kilometres.

Chief operating officer Nigel Blenkinsop said the United States offered substantial potential for the luxury SUV.

“It’s a global car,” he said.

“We do expect to build and supply into the UK, into Europe, and particularly into the US, where we see huge growth potential for the Range Rover brand.”

JLR has adapted the Solihull plant for electric vehicle production and trained 9,000 employees there for electrification, along with another 1,500 across the region.

The launch comes as the Tata Motors-owned carmaker works to recover from a costly year marked by the cyberattack and US tariffs.

JLR disclosed the attack in early September 2025. Production stopped for more than a month, and the incident cost the company £196 million ($264 million).

The carmaker reported a £244 million loss for the financial year ending in March, compared with a £1.8 billion net profit in 2024/25.

Blenkinsop described the timing of the electric Range Rover launch as a “coincidence” and said the company had “recovered really, really strongly”.

JLR had “brought production back up to normal levels really, really quickly post the incident”, he said.

The Cyber Monitoring Centre, an independent body that measures the impact of cyber incidents, estimated the attack cost the wider British economy £1.9 billion.

Blenkinsop declined to comment on those figures or a New York Times report that cited sources close to the investigation as saying Russian hackers were involved.

“Clearly, we’ve learned huge amounts through the incident,” he said.