Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will spend half a billion pounds upgrading a factory for electric vehicle production, it has been announced. The manufacturer said the investment would transform its historic Halewood facility on Merseyside to support the production of electric vehicles,

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a major £500 million investment to transform its historic Halewood plant into a state-of-the-art facility capable of producing electric vehicles (EVs) alongside traditional combustion and hybrid models.

JLR is investing £500m in its Halewood facility to produce electric vehicles, alongside existing combustion and hybrid models at the plant. Original

JLR had said Halewood would become the company’s first electric-only plant but will now extend the life of combustion models built there as EV sales take longer to grow.

Jaguar Land Rover plans to spend £500 million ($669 million) retooling one of its factories in England that’s poised to start manufacturing electric SUVs.

The future of electric vehicles in the UK has been boosted by Jaguar Land Rover announcing a massive £500million funding package to transform its historic Halewood facility. The investment aims to create the "EV factory of the future" and support the parallel production of electric cars alongside existing combustion and hybrid models.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), a subsidiary of Tata Motors, is planning to invest a whopping £500 million (around ₹5,586 crore) to transform its UK factory into a hub for manufacturing electric SUVs. What Happened: JLR intends to double its investment in its Halewood plant,