Jaguar Land Rover has introduced the Range Rover Electric, the first battery-electric model in the brand’s 56-year history, closing out a development process that stretched roughly two years longer than originally planned. The result is a vehicle that leans hard on Range Rover’s traditional strengths, off-road capability, driving refinement, and brand identity, while carrying the added engineering complexity of a battery-electric powertrain built largely from scratch. Range and Charging The Range Rover Electric offers up to 372 miles of range under UK testing standards, or 333 miles under the more conservative US EPA cycle. Charging from 10 to 80 percent takes roughly 22 minutes, and on a 350 kW DC fast charger the SUV can recover about 125 miles of range in just ten minutes. The vehicle also supports bidirectional charging, allowing it to send power back out to run external devices or, in a home vehicle-to-grid setup, help power a house during an outage. North American buyers get built-in NACS compatibility, granting direct access to Tesla’s Supercharger network, while JLR’s companion app points UK and European drivers toward more than a million charging points across 29 countries. Plug & Charge functionality, which would let the vehicle authenticate and pay at compatible stations automatically, is expected to arrive in 2027. ### Performance Twin permanently-excited synchronous motors, one on each axle, combine for 542 to 550 horsepower and up to 850 Nm of torque, more than any Range Rover has produced before, pushing the SUV from zero to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds. For a vehicle this size, that is a genuinely quick number, and it signals that JLR wants the Electric to feel like an evolution of the Range Rover driving character rather than a compromise made in service of a battery pack. Off-Road Credentials Remain the Brand’s Calling Card