• JLR gigafactory a ‘significant boost’
    • 20/07/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The automotive industry has welcomed the announcement that Jaguar Land Rover’s new EV battery gigafactory will be built in the UK. The facility, which represents a £4bn investment and is expected to create 4,000 direct jobs, will be developed in Somerset, with production expected to be underway by [...]
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  • JLR to build EV gigafactory in UK
    • 19/07/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Jaguar Land Rover owner Tata Group has announced plans to build a £4bn EV battery production factory in Somerset. The new site will create about 4,000 direct jobs and up to 9,000 in the supply chain, with production expected to commence in 2026. The company has said the facility will initially supply batteries [...]
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  • Jaguar Land Rover announces major rebrand
    • 21/04/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories: Featured, News
    Jaguar Land Rover has announced it will rebrand to JLR, with cars built under the Range Rover, Discovery, Defender and Jaguar names. The move forms part of the company’s £15bn investment into electrification, which will also see its production plant in Merseyside developed into an all-electric facility. JLR [...]
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  • Unipart secures major North American contract
    • 10/01/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Unipart Logistics has won a three-year contract to provide customer services across Jaguar Land Rover's North American aftermarket. The new business growth sees Unipart as the single point of contact for Jaguar Land Rover retailers across the US and Canada. The team of 30, based at Mahwah in New Jersey, has joined [...]
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  • Unipart secures JLR logistics contract
    • 10/06/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Unipart has been selected by Jaguar Land Rover to provide aftermarket parts logistics for both the Jaguar and Land Rover brands. The operation will be housed at Jaguar Land Rover's new 2.94m sqft campus. Unipart Logistics will operate a UK and global aftermarket distribution centre, parts packing and branded goods [...]
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  • JLR to cut costs by £4.5 billion
    • 09/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has launched a secret project to cut costs of £4.5 billion ($6.8 billion) and build 1 million cars per year by the end of the decade, reports the Sunday Times. The project, dubbed Leap 4.5, will entail building more cars on similar core skeletons, overhauling the carmaker's [...]
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  • JLR launches £11m driverless car programme
    • 15/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Jaguar Land Rover is teaming up with academics across the UK in a bid to develop fully autonomous cars. The £11 million programme, jointly funded by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, has awarded funding to a total of five projects nationwide. Research will be split between 10 [...]
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  • JLR launches apprentice recruitment drive
    • 07/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Jaguar Land Rover has launched its recruitment drive for over 200 apprentices to join the company in September 2016.  The Government’s Skills Minister, Nick Boles, praised the UK’s largest automotive apprenticeship provider stating, ‘Jaguar Land Rover is playing a leading role in backing the next generation [...]
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  • JLR expects better sales in 2015
    • 15/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Jaguar Land Rover expects this year's sales to exceed last year's as Britain, Europe and North America should help compensate for a sharp decline in China, according to chief executive Ralf Speth. He told journalists at the Frankfurt auto show, ‘We definitely expect 2015 to grow... but it is too early to give [...]
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  • JLR reveals innovative new research
    • 09/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Jaguar Land Rover has showcased some of the new and innovative low and zero emission technologies it is researching at this year’s CENEX Low Carbon Vehicle event. As well as showing Battery Electric Vehicle, Plug-In Hybrid and Mild Hybrid technologies, Jaguar Land Rover’s research engineers have revealed how [...]
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