Land Rover ramps up Defender production

Jaguar Land Rover currently has around 214,000 reservations for various cars, and the new Defender accounts for every fourth reservation. To cut the waiting times, the company has now introduced a third work shift at its factory.

Like most other automakers, JLR suffered from the recent supply chain disruptions and the waiting queue grew abnormally large as a consequence.

The company is also developing an all-electric Defender version, but that one will not be available until 2030 or so. The Range Rover and the Discovery are also on schedule to get ICE-free variants. All in all, the corporation plans to introduce at least 6 new Land Rover EVs before the end of the decade, and the first entry is slated to reach the assembly lines in 2024.