Jaguar Type 01 Revealed: 1,030PS, a 450-Mile Range and a £130,000 Price

Jaguar ended a two-year silence in New York on the evening of 6 October, which by UK time was the early hours of today. The Type 01, the four-door electric grand tourer the brand has been promising since it stopped selling petrol cars, is now a production car with published numbers, and JLR's reveal release carries today's date. Our preview eve piece set out what was known and what was still guesswork. The difference now is that the figures are official.

The numbers that are now official

Under the body sits an 850-volt electrical architecture and a 118kWh usable battery, 120kWh in total. Jaguar quotes an expected EPA range of up to 400 miles, along with a sustained highway figure of up to 320 miles at a constant 75mph. The WLTP number that matters for a UK buyer is up to 450 miles, as the Daily Mail's launch report records.

Three motors, two at the rear and one at the front, drive all four wheels. Jaguar quotes up to 1,030PS and 1,365Nm, which gives 0 to 62mph in 3.2 seconds. Road & Track's report from the reveal points out that the car is tuned for high-speed pull rather than a standing start, and the 62 to 112mph run takes 4.0 seconds. That is the practical meaning of Jaguar's "power in reserve" line.

Charging deserves its own paragraph. On a 350kW charger the car adds up to 200 miles of range in 13 minutes, and a 10 to 80 per cent top-up takes about 22 minutes. Road & Track reports the engineering underneath: the charging electronics can split the pack into two 400-volt halves, which allows up to 250kW from the slower chargers that still make up most of the public network.

The car itself

Away from the numbers, the Type 01 is a large car. It measures about 5.2 metres long and just 1.4 metres high, on 23-inch wheels as standard. Jaguar quotes a drag coefficient of 0.23 and says more than 360 patent applications relate to technologies developed for it. There is no rear window, so the rear-view image comes from a camera.

Inside, a central spine runs the length of the cabin, an idea carried over from the Type 00 concept, with a 24-inch display ahead of the driver and seven-inch touchscreens front and rear. Road & Track notes the cabin is compact for a car of this size, describing it as closer to a four-door 2+2 than a full five-seater, and reports a kerb weight of 5,950 pounds, or roughly 2,700kg.

The price, and who it is for

Orders open in early 2027, UK prices start at £130,000, and first customer deliveries are expected during 2027. That is a published figure rather than a forecast. Managing director Rawdon Glover called the car "the foundation of this British brand", and our original preview argued the relaunch only made sense if the figures came in near the rumours. On paper, they did, which puts the Type 01 alongside the Porsche Taycan and the Audi e-tron GT rather than the saloons Jaguar used to build.

The Daily Mail reports that roughly 50,000 people had registered an interest before the reveal, 78 per cent of them non-Jaguar owners. That is a sign-up list rather than an order book, and the same report quotes Glover saying he is "worldly enough to know that for some people it's perhaps too bold". Read the interest number as a signal and nothing more.

Built in Britain, with jobs attached

The production plan is where the car meets the real economy. JLR says the Type 01 will be built at Solihull from 2027, with electric drive units and battery packs made in Wolverhampton and pressed body panels manufactured at Halewood in Merseyside. Nearly 9,000 Solihull employees have been retrained to build electric vehicles, with a further 1,500 trained across the company's West Midlands operations, according to JLR.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds tied the launch to the group's wider spending. "Jaguar's new EV is a crucial step in JLR's plans to invest over £15 billion in the UK, and another big vote of confidence in our world-class automotive industry," he said, as Business Live reported. JLR says it has already invested £11.5 billion of a £15 to 18 billion programme announced in 2024, most of it in the UK.

The difficult part

One expensive GT cannot carry a carmaker by itself. JLR is cutting 4,000 jobs across its global workforce and targeting £1.7 billion of cost savings, a backdrop our September piece on the JLR restructure set out in full. Jaguar wholesales fell to about 800 cars in the last quarter as the old range wound down, the detail that stood out in our read of JLR's trading update. The Type 01 is the car that has to rebuild that number from close to zero.

It also has to look like a platform rather than a single statement. The Type 01 is the first of three models planned on the Jaguar Electric Architecture, so the investment behind it is judged over several years. The reveal answers the question our preview posed about whether Jaguar would build a car worth £130,000. What it cannot answer yet is whether enough buyers want one.