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0Report: Liberty Electric Cars working on 1,000-mile EV for 2014 1365011880
Liberty Electric Cars says it will unveil a vehicle next year that will be able to go as many as 1,000 miles on a single charge. We just don't know if that vehicle will be a converted Land Rover, though. The UK-based company's CEO Ian Hobday points to 2014 as the production-model debut of the ...
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Report: Land Rover says plug-in hybrid Range Rover on the way 1349993340
Think of it as an SUV for the environmentally conscious gentry. Land Rover might make a plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle (PHEV) version of its Range Rover as early as 2015, UK's Auto Express reports, citing Jaguar Land Rover Hybrid Technology Chief Engineer Peter Richings. Land Rover, whose ...
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Featured: Deep Dive: 2013 Range Rover bows in London, diesel hybrid confirmed 1346964300
This all-new 2013 model might just be the SUV archetype of the future. It's been said that if you want to see what an ordinary sedan will be like in 10 or 20 years' time, you should look at an S-Class from Mercedes-Benz. The thought is that as a leader in innovation, safety, and comfort, ...
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Official: Green Automotive will acquire Liberty Electric Cars for about $17 million in stock 1341928980
There must be a market out there for quarter-million-dollar all-electric Range Rovers, right? Green Automotive Co., which makes all-electric buses, will acquire U.K.-based Land Rover-conversion company Liberty Electric Cars for about $17 million in stock. GAC agreed to buy Liberty Electric for ...
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Exclusive: SAE Congress: Magna Flex4 offers slight fuel savings in a Land Rover LR2 [w/video] 1335988200
Flex4 may sound like something sold during the 3 a.m. hour on advertorial television, but it's really Magna's part-time all-wheel drive system that offers the benefits of AWD with lower emissions than standard AWD. How? Because Flex4 can disengage the power going to the rear wheels when it ...
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Jaguar-Land Rover to construct $484-million 4-cylinder engine factory in UK 1316553120
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced it will invest £355 million ($484 million U.S. at the current exchange rate) to construct a state-of-the-art advanced engine facility in the UK, as the automaker seeks growth by addressing global demand for low-emission gasoline and diesel ...
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Axeon unveils an all-electric Land Rover Defender for safaris 1305046620
What's the point of going on safari if your truck's rumble and exhaust sully the experience? That's what Axeon and Land Rover have reasoned, teaming up with the solution you see here. Developed in collaboration with JLR South Africa, this Defender 110 – a long-wheelbase model with an ...
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Jaguar Land Rover selects Ricardo as key strategic supplier 1302610020
Back in November 2010, Jaguar Land Rover announced that it was investing heavily in infrastructure, research and development and advanced technologies. Such plans require intensive product development within a limited time frame and it is because of this the company has enlisted the assistance of ... -
Report: Land Rover confirms first production hybrid coming in 2013 1302195660
Land Rover models are high-end luxury SUVs with an ardent fan base. But while these pricey utes are popular, they're also quite thirsty at the pump, and between rising gas prices and increased legislative pressures regarding CO2 emissions, the British automaker has undertaken an alternative fuel ...
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For $39 milion, Northern Lights Electric orders 150 all-electric E-Range SUVs for Scandinavia 1300892040
Liberty Electric Cars E-Range – Click above for high-res image galleryIn mid-2008, Liberty Electric Cars announced it would invest £30 million ($49 million U.S. at today's exchange rates) in a large-scale electric vehicle conversion project, like with tens of thousands of ... -
Video: Fully Charged takes you inside the Geneva Motor Show 1299768540
Nissan Esflow at Geneva – Click above to watch video after the jumpOur coverage of the 2011 Geneva Motor Show included showing you 76 production and concept vehicles that were unveiled or displayed. However, there simply wasn't enough time in our exhaustive auto show schedule to video ... -
Geneva 2011: Land Rover shows off Range Rover Sport plug-in diesel hybrid 1299081180
2011 Range Rover Range_e – Click above for high-res image galleryLand Rover has debuted its Range_e, a plug-in diesel hybrid, at the Geneva Motor Show. According to Land Rover, the Range_e can go up to 20 miles in full-electric mode, and return 85 mpg and 88 grams of C02 per kilometer. ... -
Land Rover promises Range_e plug-in diesel hybrid for Geneva 1297886400
Land Rover Range_e plug-in diesel hybrid is heading to Geneva – Click above for high-res image galleryLand Rover is gearing up for the 2011 Geneva Motor Show and it's bringing four new models to show off, one of which shows the automaker is thinking a bit more green: the Land Rover ... -
Report: Land Rover Evoque won't get hybrid 1292273700
Range Rover Evoque five-door – Click above for high-res image galleryDespite the fact that Land Rover has gone out of its way to promote its new Evoque as an environmentally friendly alternative to its normal brand of behemoth globetrotting earth movers, Auto Express reports that the ... -
UK automakers prototype flywheel hybrid system with claimed 20% gain in fuel economy 1285070220
When you pair up automakers like Jaguar, Land Rover and Ford, with hybrid powertrain developer Flybrid Systems, engineering consultants Prodrive and Ricardo and transmissions experts Torotrak and Xtrac, you'll either end up with a load of industry experts duking it out over some trivial aspect of a ...
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Time for REEVolution - Think will help power up UK plug-in vehicle program 1284753840
Lotus, Nissan, Think and Jaguar Land Rover. Four different auto companies, all working together in the UK electric car consortium (along with Axeon, EVO Electric and Xtrac) called REEVolution. As the name kind of gives away, the goal is to "expand and enhance technology" used in extended-range ...
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Report: Tata Motors to revive Land Rover lineup by downsizing, reducing weight, adding hybrids 1284209400
Land Rover Evoque – Click above for high-res imageTata Motors has reportedly planned an extreme makeover for its Land Rover luxury SUV brand. The makeover begins with the development of smaller vehicles, continues with a switch to a lightweight aluminum platform and ends with a splash of ... -
Autocar says range-extenders are the future. Do you agree? 1283212620
BMW Megacity – Click above for high-res imageAutocar associate editor Hilton Holloway recently attended a two-day technical briefing on BMW's Megacity Vehicle project and, while he admits that the pure electric Megacity is fascinating in its own right, it's the possibility of BMW ... -
Report: Land Rover Evoque to get 2.0-liter EcoBoost from Ford? 1282827600
Jaguar's got a good thing going with its use of Ford engines, and even an engine shortage isn't enough to deter Land Rover from getting in on the game. A report in Autocar suggests that the Land Rover Evoque could make use of the 2.0-liter, four-cyliinder Ecoboost engine that Ford just installed ...
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2011 Range Rover TDV8 gets new ZF 8-speed automatic, but not in America 1282658460
2011 Range Rover TDV8 – Click above for high-res image galleryFor 2011, European-spec Range Rovers are getting a fresh transmission to go along with the new, Ford-built 4.4-liter turbodiesel V8. Like many of its German competitors, the Range Rovers will now be equipped with ZF's 8HP70 ...

