JLR has announced a £500m investment to transform its Halewood facility to support the parallel production of electric vehicles, alongside existing combustion and hybrid models.

This investment is part of JLR’s Reimagine strategy, which will see the company electrify all its brands by 2030, with the aim of achieving carbon net-zero across all supply chain, products, and operations by 2039.

Halewood will be the first all‑electric production facility, and the company has already invested £250m to extend the site by 32,364 sqm for production of JLR’s medium‑sized electric luxury SUVs on the new Electric Modular Architecture (EMA) platform. To do this, the plant has been fitted with technology including new EV build lines, 750 autonomous robots, ADAS calibration rigs, laser alignment technology for perfect part fitment and the latest cloud based digital plant management systems to oversee production, creating the ‘factory of the future’.

Through a mix of renewables, fuel switching and energy efficiency products, JLR is aiming to remove 40,000 tonnes of CO2e from Halewood’s industrial footprint as part of its carbon net-zero targets.

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