Jaguar Land Rover has vigorously denied it had plans to launch a gasoline range-extended version of an upcoming battery-electric luxury sedan based on its Type 00 concept.
“Our plans to reinvent Jaguar as an electric-only luxury automotive brand are unchanged,” a spokesperson said in a Monday email to WardsAuto.
The denial comes after The Sunday Times reported, citing sources “familiar with the situation,” that Jaguar engineers had been told to begin work on a hybrid version of the planned sedan. The report said the range-extended electric vehicle would boost journey range from a prospective 700 kilometers to 1,100 kilometers.
While the vehicle would still debut as all-electric when it debuts later this year, a range-extended version is being lined up in case the model does not attract enough sales, the newspaper’s sources claim.
Jaguar in 2024 announced it would transform its operations to exclusively make battery-electric vehicles. The company’s makeover included changes to its branding, which Chief Creative Officer Gerry McGovern at the time called “exuberant modernism.” However, the diversity lifestyle imagery used to market its new direction shocked many industry watchers asking whether the brand’s traditional customers used to large ICE powerplants would embrace the new vision.
WardsAuto had raised the possibility that gasoline-enhanced models could be in the pipeline back in August 2025, quoting a JLR spokesperson about an announced delay in launching the electric sedan.
In an emailed response to WardsAuto at the time, the spokesperson had left the door open to powertrains by saying: “Our plans and vehicle architectures are flexible so we can adapt to different market and client demands.”
However, in their latest email, the JLR spokesperson acknowledged the automaker had provided selected media outlets 20-minute passenger rides in an electric prototype of the new vehicle in December 2025, saying the company received “overwhelmingly positive reactions” from global media. Testing of the new model had been previously cloaked in secrecy.
“We are looking forward to unveiling the first new electric Jaguar later this year,” the statement added.
