new Jaguar Land Rover CEO Thierry Bolloré has confirmed that Jaguar is talking to external partners about the brand’s new all-electric platform.
Bolloré recently revealed that Jaguar would be reinventing its entire line-up of cars in 2025 as part of JLR’s Reimagine plan, with the brand set to rival Tesla and Polestar by going all-electric. He also confirmed that Jaguar would not be sharing a platform with Land Rover, but would be developing its own bespoke architecture.
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Now, however, talking at JLR’s investor conference, Bolloré said that Jaguar was talking with “a selection of actors” to work with on a new all-electric platform.

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Jaguar’s decision to find a partner to work with “was a matter of scale and speed to go to market,” according to Bolloré, but he said that “naturally there is massive appetite to work with us.
Bolloré is leaving the method for future Jaguars to JLR chief creative officer Gerry McGovern and the choice of platform would be dictated by the design team. “It has to respect the proportion of the designs,” Bollore said.
Speaking to investors, Gerry McGovern said, “Great design begins with volume of proportions and clearly Jaguars will have quite significant different volumes of proportion compared to Land Rovers.