Jaguar Land Rover will make an electric version of its Defender in Slovakia, Bloomberg reports.
Details have not been finalised, but the Nitra plant in Slovakia will remain “the home of the Defender”, a JLR spokesperson confirmed to the news agency.
It is part of plans to launch nine fully electric models by 2030, including six range Rover and Jaguar electric models at its UK plants in Solihull and Halewood.
Earlier this month the automaker, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, opened a new £250 million test facility in Coventry.
In 2019, JLR announced that the new Defender would be built in Slovakia.
The last Defender came off the production line in 2016, after almost 70 years of production in Solihull, UK.
