When Land Rover debuted the fifth-generation Vary Rover again in 2021, the British automaker introduced {that a} totally electrical model of the brand new large physique Vary could be coming in 2024. Now, Land Rover has launched the primary teasers of the Vary Rover Electrical, opening up the ready record for purchasers because the model’s first EV enters its prototype testing section.

By way of styling variations, the teasers don’t present a lot. The grille options the identical slotted design as the usual Vary Rover, however most of it’s really a blocked-off panel. The wheel middle caps say “EV” as a substitute of getting the Land Rover emblem, and the gas filler door on the rear fender is changed by a slide-out panel that hides the cost port. It’s additionally prone to have tweaked bumper designs and different slight design tweaks, however in any other case it’ll seem like the Vary Rover we all know and love.

To make up for the relative lack of visuals from these teasers, Land Rover has divulged numerous particulars concerning the Vary Rover Electrical, which it anticipates could have extra newly filed patents than any Vary Rover earlier than it. The electrical Vary can be based mostly on the identical MLA platform because the gas-powered fashions and have an 800-volt structure that can present quick charging capabilities.

In keeping with Land Rover the EV’s general efficiency and off-road functionality can be akin to the V8-powered Vary Rovers – it’ll even be capable to ford water that’s 33.5 inches deep, matching the Land Rover Defender and almost equalling the large fuel Vary’s 35.4-inch functionality. Due to new energetic noise-canceling know-how and the inherent quietness that going electrical affords, Land Rover says the EV would be the quietest and most refined Vary Rover but.

Bodily prototypes are beginning to hit roads and trails now, with Land Rover saying the Vary Rover EV’s testing routine can be considered one of its most rigorous ever. It will likely be subjected to temperatures from -40 levels fahrenheit to 122 levels fahrenheit in locals like Dubai and Sweden, and the testing program has been particularly designed to make sure the battery pack and electrical drivetrain can stand up to every kind of climate and terrain.

We nonetheless don’t know precisely when the Vary Rover Electrical will go on sale or how a lot it’s going to price, however potential prospects at the moment are ready to enroll to be on the ready record by means of Land Rover’s web site. The Vary Rover EV can be constructed on the similar Solihull, United Kingdom plant as the opposite Vary Rovers, with the model investing an extra $88 million within the facility for EV manufacturing. Following the Vary Rover EV can be electrical variations of the Vary Rover Velar and Evoque in addition to the Land Rover Defender, with JLR hoping to construct a brand new battery facility in England.