Barbara Bergmeier, executive director of industrial operations at JLR (source: Courtesy of JLR)
The Jaguar Land Rover plant in Nitra will produce pure electric vehicles by the end of the decade. This announcement arrived on the fifth anniversary of its production launch. Under the Reimagine strategy, JLR promises to launch nine new pure electric vehicles by 2030.
“We are really thrilled and very excited to announce that this state-of-the-art plant will produce electric vehicles in this decade,” said Barbara Bergmeier, executive director of industrial operations at JLR, on Wednesday, October 25, in Nitra.
She did not specify when the production of a fully electric model will be launched in Nitra nor what electric model will be manufactured in Nitra.
“It’s a little bit too early to announce the exact plan, but it will come in due course,” she said.
The Nitra plant will be reconfigured for electrification as part of the £15 billion investment earmarked for JLR's transformation.
In Slovakia, Volkswagen Slovakia in Bratislava and Stellantis in Trnava already produce fully electric cars with plans for new models already announced. In the case of VW it will be a new generation Porsche Cayenne, the first fully electric SUV produced by VW in Bratislava. Earlier in October, Citroën revealed that it will manufacture the ë-C3 model, said to be the cheapest European-built electric car, at the Stellantis car plant in Trnava. And Volvo Cars is just building a brand new plant near Košice, eastern Slovakia, for the production of electric cars.
