It’s that rare thing in the automotive world: all-new
The I-Pace is not a platform derivative, it’s a car fully optimised to exploit an EV architecture. JLR lured Dr Wolfgang Ziebart, a former BMW board member and JLR engineering director, out of retirement to oversee the programme. “We agreed very quickly that I would be working on an electric car,” he says, a little enigmatically. “In terms of well-to-wheel efficiency, the EV is about 70 per cent.” (He’s no hydrogen fuel cell fan: its overall efficiency, he insists, is about 30 per cent)
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