Land Rover today announced that the plug-in hybrid variant of the 2023 Range Rover will be able to go 113 km on electric power alone, rather than the 100 km it predicted when it announced the model last year.
That estimate was made on the WLTP test cycle and Land Rover
expects that it will translate to a range of 88 km of real-world
driving. In all, that’s a 13 percent increase over its initial expectations
and, according to the company, should allow owners to complete 75 percent of
their journeys with electric power alone when the battery is fully charged.
That shouldn’t be difficult to do because the Range Rover is
one of the few PHEVs with 50kW DC rapid charging capability. That means that it
can charge up to 80 percent in less than an hour. That, says the automaker,
makes it one of the fastest charging PHEVs on the market. Offered in two trims,
the 434 hp P440e and the 503 hp P510e, it
combines a 38kWh lithium-ion battery with a 105kW electric motor and a
3.0-liter inline-six-cylinder engine. The more powerful model can get from 0-96 km/h in just 5.3 seconds.
The new Range Rover is also available with a selection of
internal combustion engines, including both gas and diesel units, as well as a
523 hp twin-turbo V8. An all-electric model is expected to arrive in 2024. Land
Rover says that since it introduced the new Range Rover in October 2021, its
online configurator has been used more than 2 million times.
In the UK, where both models are available to order, prices
for the plug-in hybrid version of the Range Rover start at £ 103,485 OTR
(US$ 139,841) for the P440e, while for the flagship
SV, they range from £ 146,200 to £ 173,200 OTR (US$ 196,850 and US$ 233,300).
