JLR upgrades its historic Merseyside site

Jaguar Land Rover has announced that it will be investing a total of $860 million (£500 million) to transform the historic Halewood site to support the parallel production of electric vehicles alongside existing combustion and hybrid models.

The site was originally developed to produce the Ford Anglia and is now being transformed for the electric era. A total of £250 million is said to already have been invested into the site alongside over one million hours of construction work over the last 12 months.

Jaguar Land Rover's Halewood site is being readied to produce electric luxury SUVs that will be based atop the firm's Electric Modular Architecture platform

This work includes an extension of the site by more than 32,000sqm, and its preparation for the production of Jaguar Land Rover's future medium‑sized electric luxury SUVs that will be based atop the firm's Electric Modular Architecture platform.

The site has also already been fitted with technology including new electric vehicle build lines (including the extension of its final production line to accommodate battery fitment), a total of 750 autonomous robots (40 of which are designed to assist employees with the fitment of high‑voltage batteries), while the site has also received a new body shop capable of producing 500 vehicle bodies a day.

Additionally, the site has also received modifications to its paint shop to accommodate an increased demand for contrasting roofs. Halewood has also received a new training and development centre that sees the firm's colleagues being trained on vehicles at varying stages of the production cycle including the new high voltage battery assembly processes.

The investment into the site comes as part of Jaguar Land Rover's Reimagine strategy, which will see it electrify all its brands by 2030, with the aim of achieving carbon net zero across our supply chain, products, and operations by 2039.