The hugely successful unibody Defender isn't going electric anytime soon. According to Lennard Hoornik, the chief commercial officer at Jaguar Land Rover, its D7x aluminum-intensive platform does not ...

Jaguar Land Rover's Chief Commercial Officer, Lennard Hoornik, says that the Land Rover Defender isn't likely to see an electrified variant within this current generation. Rather, packaging concerns ...

Another company has surfaced with an electric conversion for the original Defender, but there's a difference this time. U.K.-based Bedeo's electric Defender uses in-wheel motors, which Bedeo has ...

The Land Rover Defender might be getting an electric little brother. According to an Autocar report, a Jaguar-Land Rover (JLR) executive recently revealed some interesting details at an investor ...

Land Rover has been hinting for years at launching a Defender powered purely by batteries, but using the current Defender platform won't be possible, a senior executive at JLR has revealed. In an ...

Big internal combustion engines have stuck around longer than most of us expected. Remember when Jeremy Clarkson said the Aston Martin V12 Vantage was pretty much the end of that back in 2009? Yet ...

Land Rover wants to make more than just big ol’ SUVs. The British automaker is reportedly entering a new market segment with a smaller all-electric Defender SUV that Autocar report says could be ...

There are plenty of firms turning classic cars – including Land Rovers – into EVs, but UK-based Bedeo’s new Land Rover Defender conversion is unusual because it uses in-wheel motors. In-wheel, or ...

LONDON -- Jaguar Land Rover said it will produce an electric version of its Defender at its plant in Slovakia. The automaker did not provide a specific timeline for the new electric Defender's launch.

Chase Bierenkoven is a gearhead and writer based in Denver, Colorado. As the family lore goes, Chase's first word was "truck." Cars have been a problem ever since. By 16, Chase was spending his ...