Electric Jaguar: UK automaker to ditch combustion engines by 2025

The move was welcomed by United Kingdom Transport Secretary Grant Shapps as ‘a huge step for British car manufacturing’.

Struggling luxury car brand Jaguar will be fully electric by 2025, the British company said Monday as it outlined a plan to phase out internal combustion engines. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which is owned by Indian conglomerate Tata Motors, hopes the move will help turn around the fortunes of the 86-year-old Jaguar brand, which for many epitomises class but which has struggled in recent years. The switch to an electric future will involve moving car production from JLR’s Castle Bromwich factory east of the central England city of Birmingham to nearby Solihull.