Jaguar is reportedly planning to launch a 300-mile all-electric SUV in 2017

A new report from Autocar states that sources confirmed Jaguar is planning to launch its first electric vehicle in 2017 and it should be a SUV with โ€œaround 300 miles of rangeโ€. The concept is expected to debut at the โ€œMondiale de lโ€™Automobileโ€ in Paris, which will start onย October 1st, 2016.According to Autocar, the company aims for a base price of aroundย ยฃ60,000 ($91,000), which should position the vehicle in the same price range as the Tesla Model S and Audiโ€™s upcoming all-electric SUV the quattro.

The car should use the same platform as the F-Pace (picture above).

In term of styling, it seems like Jaguar is sticking with the annoying idea that electric vehicles need to look radically different from conventional cars:

The styling is said to be revolutionary, in the way that the BMW i brand sits separately from the firmโ€™s mainstream models.

BMWโ€™s โ€œiโ€ brand is hardly a good example since the only 2 models in the lineup, i3 and i8, sit at completely opposite ends of the spectrum. Most agree that the i8 is a beautiful vehicle, while itโ€™s far from being the case for the i3.

Autocar released a rendering, which they called โ€œhighly speculativeโ€:Personally, I canโ€™t reconcileย aย โ€œrevolutionaryโ€ design and this rendering, but I hope the rendering is more in line with what Jaguar plans to deliver than what is described in the previous statement, which screams โ€œweird-mobileโ€.

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