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Tata Motors-owned luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a £500 million investment to convert its Halewood facility in England into a production hub for electric vehicles (EVs). This transformation will enable the plant to produce EVs alongside its current combustion and hybrid models.
The company revealed on Thursday that it has already invested £250 million in the project and expanded the facility by 32,364 square meters. The revamped Halewood plant will be tasked with manufacturing JLR’s medium-sized electric luxury SUVs on the cutting-edge Electric Modular Architecture (EMA) platform.
Originally built in 1963 to produce the Ford Anglia and later the Jaguar X-Type in 2001, the Halewood plant now boasts advanced EV production lines. It features 750 autonomous robots, ADAS calibration rigs, laser alignment technology, and cloud-based digital plant management systems to ensure smooth operations.
“Halewood will be our first all-electric production facility, and it is a testament to the brilliant efforts of our teams and suppliers who have equipped the plant with the technology needed to deliver our world-class luxury electric vehicles,” said Barbara Bergmeier, Executive Director of Industrial Operations at JLR.
JLR recently updated its overall investment strategy to £18 billion by 2028, with a focus on product development. In FY24, the company invested £3.3 billion and plans to allocate £3.5 billion in FY25, targeting a net cash-positive position by the end of that fiscal year.
Additionally, JLR has partnered with Tata Technologies to drive the digital transformation of its industrial operations. Tata Technologies will provide an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to streamline manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, finance, and purchasing functions by consolidating data across departments into a single system. |
