The segment of premium crossovers for automakers attractive in itself - for example, it allowed the brand Porsche automaker Volkswagen significantly improve their financial position. Â However, rival Daimler recently made it clear that the conquest of the market of luxury electric vehicles will begin precisely with the crossover.
And now, before the next motor show in Los Angeles, according to Reuters news agency, the brand Jaguar has decided to announce the availability of plans for the production of electric crossover I-Pace, which will hit the market in 2018. Â In fact, fueled by money of Indian investors British set themselves the task ahead of German rivals in terms of time to market eletcrocrossover. Â They also claim that among Jaguar car owners about a quarter of respondents ready to transfer to electric vehicles. Â In
the US, one in five selling car Jaguar finds shelter in California, so Los Angeles for such revelations was chosen not by chance. Â Moreover, by 2025, one in every seven cars sold here should be deprived of the possibility to pollute the atmosphere with exhaust gases. Â
The crossover will be powered by lithium-ion batteries total capacity of 90 kW • h, the total charge which is enough for about 350 km (by European standards is about 480 km).  The total output of the two electric motors providing electric all-wheel drive, reaches 400 hp  To hundred kilometers per hour the novelty is dispersed for 4 seconds, and to fill the charge of the traction battery will leave no more than two hours.  Jaguar wants to make this model more affordable than the Tesla Model X,
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