Ian Hoban, Bernhard Maier, Peter Rawlinson.

“Electric vehicles are inevitable – Jaguar will make them desirable.”

Ian Hoban, Jaguar Land Rover’s vehicle line director says the newly unveiled I-Pace will have superior torque delivery than internal combustion engines, while the car will “rewarding and practical enough to drive every day.”
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“Some will say we are late to the market, but actually we see 2019 as being a point where demand for such cars will actually start to build to a level that is strong enough to bring down costs.”

Skoda boss Bernhard Maier explains why the carmaker is not looking to go electric for at least two more years. It will then start with a plug-in hybrid, followed by a first all-electric car in 2020.
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“Until Tesla, there was an unwritten rule, and a widely held belief in the motor industry, that it was impossible to start a new car company from scratch. Tesla successfully broke that.”

Peter Rawlinson, former chief engineer behind Tesla’s Model S and now CTO of Lucid Motors knows that it will not be easy to get the companies Tesla-fighter on the road, as it is competing with established carmakers and the California EV maker itself. Though the latter has shown that anything is possible.
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