Jaguar E-Type Zero – classic electric

11 September 2017

Unit Jaguar Land Rover Classic presented classic Jaguar E-Type on electric

Alexey Subbotin, photos Jaguar Land Rover Classic

For branded festival Tech Fest held recently in London, unit Jaguar Land Rover has prepared a special Classic car show – apparently it is a carefully restored authentic classic Roadster E-type of the sample in 1968, under the elegant contours of which are hidden ... quite a modern electric car!

Experts from Jaguar Land Rover Classic (the firm, incidentally, is based in Coventry, close to the historical enterprise of the Jaguar, where he collected a real E-Type) without false modesty, referred to his creation as "the most beautiful electric car in the world", and to be honest, there is something.

If the exterior is left exactly the same, the interior has been very thoroughly, effectively leaving from the historical prototype, only the original steering wheel with wooden rim. The decoration of polished carbon fiber, in the centre of the dashboard – large screen media system, instead of the gear lever – contemporary "puck" controller, and as the apotheosis of futuristic digital instrument cluster in front of the driver with the virtual scales.

The "heart" of vintage electric E-Type Zero – 220-kilowatt (in the usual terms, that's a 299 HP) electric motor, resulting in a single-stage reducer of rear wheels, and in place of a traditional engine – almost exactly resembles the dimensions of the unit battery is quite decent at present capacity is 40 kWh, which allows you to drive on a single charge of the battery 270 km.

Dynamic performance is even better than a gasoline counterpart (the truth, and "horses" have a version with a slightly smaller engine with 269 HP) – acceleration to "hundreds" takes only 5.5 s versus 6.5 with the "classics".

It is stressed that the chassis of the historical counterpart, including the weight distribution, suspension design and brakes (by the way, a disk-wheel), remained unchanged, which allowed the car to retain the character of controllability of the historic E-Type.