Warwickshire’s JLR pumps £500m into ‘factory of the future’ at Halewood site
Gaydon-headquartered Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a £500 million investment to transform its historic Halewood facility in Merseyside for production of electric vehicles.
Originally built in 1963 to produce the Ford Anglia, Halewood has undergone more than a million hours of construction work over the last 12 months, with £250 million already invested.
The site has been extended by 32,364 sq m to produce JLR’s medium‑sized electric luxury SUVs on the new electric modular architecture platform.
It’s been fitted with technology including new EV build lines, 750 autonomous robots, ADAS calibration rigs, laser alignment technology for perfect part fitment and the latest cloud-based digital plant management systems to oversee production.
This investment is part of JLR’s Reimagine strategy to electrify all its brands by 2030, with the aim of achieving carbon net zero across its supply chain, products and operations by 2039.
Halewood will now produce combustion engine, plug-in hybrid and battery electric models side by side before eventually becoming JLR’s first all‑electric production facility.
Barbara Bergmeier, executive director of industrial operations at JLR, hailed the “brilliant efforts by our teams and suppliers who have worked together to equip the plant with the technology needed to deliver our world class luxury electric vehicles”.
