Jaguar's Reinvention: Everything We Know About the Type 01 Electric Super-GT

The most-scrutinised car in Britain

In December 2024, Jaguar unveiled the Type 00 concept at Miami Art Week and detonated the internet. The rebrand — new logo, new motto, a launch film with no cars in it — provoked more commentary than any moment in the company's ninety-year history, most of it hostile.

Eighteen months later, the production car has a name, a date and a venue. It is called the Type 01. It will be revealed in New York in October 2026. And it carries a burden no single model has carried for a British marque in living memory: it is not launching a car, it is relaunching a company.

The name

Jaguar confirmed the Type 01 name on 12–13 May 2026, retiring both the Type 00 concept badge and the internal codename X900.

The company's own explanation has three parts. "Type" places the car in a lineage running from the C-Type that won Le Mans in 1951, through the D-Type, E-Type and F-Type — cars Jaguar characterises as blending engaging dynamics with deep reserves of power and composure. The "0" denotes zero tailpipe emissions. The "1" marks it as the first car of a new era.

The name will appear on the "strikethrough" motif where the bonnet meets the windscreen. Reception has been mixed — Car and Driver called it uninspired — but as reinvention gambles go, arguing about a name is the least of Jaguar's problems.

What we know about the car

Body and size. A four-door grand tourer, roughly 5.2 metres (204.7in) long with a 3.2-metre (126in) wheelbase. That makes it longer than a Porsche Taycan and comparable to a BMW i7. The two-door butterfly-doored show coupe is gone; the production car is a fastback saloon with conventional wing mirrors — a notable retreat from the concept's camera systems — and standard 23-inch wheels. Charging ports sit on both front wings. There is reportedly no rear window, with cameras compensating for a modest glasshouse.

Powertrain. A tri-motor setup producing more than 1,000 PS (986hp+) and over 1,300 Nm (959 lb-ft) of torque. That makes it comfortably the most powerful production Jaguar ever built.

Battery and charging. A 120kWh pack on an 800V architecture supporting 350kW charging. Jaguar has claimed roughly 200 miles of range added in about 15 minutes.

Range. Expected around 400 miles EPA and approximately 430 miles WLTP.

Platform. The bespoke Jaguar Electric Architecture (JEA) — not shared with any existing JLR product, and reportedly the product of a multi-billion-pound investment.

Built in the UK. A meaningful detail. The I-Pace was assembled in Austria; the Type 01 returns Jaguar production to Britain.

Price and positioning

Expect £120,000 to start, rising beyond £150,000 for high-specification, heavily personalised examples. US pricing has been indicated around $130,000 at the entry point.

JLR's stated intent is to sit above mainstream premium brands like BMW and Mercedes-Benz, but below Bentley and Aston Martin. One executive has suggested transaction prices around £130,000 will be routine — describing the target as the same commercial sweet spot Range Rover occupies.

There will be an extensive bespoke options programme, in the manner of Range Rover SVO, Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur or Bentley Mulliner. That is where the margin lives.

Direct rivals: Porsche Taycan, Audi e-tron GT, Lotus Emeya, Polestar 5, Mercedes EQS, BMW i7, and — increasingly — Chinese premium EVs that are catching up fast on power, screens and software.

The timeline, and the gap

• Concept revealed: December 2024, Miami
• Name confirmed: May 2026
• Prototype shown: Monaco Formula E, late May 2026
• World premiere: New York, October 2026
• Orders open: UK and North America, following the reveal
• Customer deliveries: first half of 2027

Which means Jaguar will have gone approximately eighteen months without producing a single car, following the retirement of the F-Pace in December 2025. No brand of Jaguar's scale has voluntarily gone dark for that long and come back. It is either the most disciplined reinvention in the industry or a catastrophic loss of dealer and customer momentum, and there is no third option.

Has anyone driven it?

Yes — prototypes, on track at Gaydon. The early reports are consistently, almost surprisingly, positive.

Journalists who have driven prototypes describe a car engineered explicitly around the character of Jaguar's classic grand tourers rather than around EV benchmarks. Jaguar's engineering team reportedly drove much of the historic fleet — including the V12 XJ-C — to establish what "true modern Jaguar" should feel like, and testers have noted a deliberately smooth, creamy power delivery rather than the instant-torque violence typical of high-output EVs.

That is the right instinct. If the Type 01 merely out-accelerates a Taycan, it fails. If it rides and flows like a great Jaguar, it has a case.

The stakes

Jaguar has abandoned the XE, XF, E-Pace, F-Pace and F-Type. It has thrown away a customer base to chase a smaller, wealthier one. JLR has confirmed it will offer hybrid options on the EMA platform underpinning future Land Rovers — but has explicitly held Jaguar to an all-electric line. CEO PB Balaji's position is that the performance attributes Jaguar wants can only be delivered electrically.

Type 02 (a limousine) and Type 03 (an SUV) are expected to follow on JEA.

Everything depends on October. A brand that has not sold a car in over a year, whose rebrand was mocked globally, is betting its survival on a £120,000 electric saloon with no rear window.

It is, at minimum, the most interesting thing happening in the British car industry.

• Jaguar Type 01 reveals in New York in October 2026; deliveries in H1 2027
• Tri-motor, 1,000+ PS, 120kWh, 800V, 350kW charging, ~400-mile EPA range
• Priced from ~£120,000 to £150,000+ ($130,000 in the US)
• Built in the UK on the bespoke JEA platform
• Jaguar will have produced no cars for roughly 18 months before it arrives

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Key takeaways

• Jaguar Type 01 reveals in New York in October 2026; deliveries in H1 2027
• Tri-motor, 1,000+ PS, 120kWh, 800V, 350kW charging, ~400-mile EPA range
• Priced from ~£120,000 to £150,000+ ($130,000 in the US)
• Built in the UK on the bespoke JEA platform
• Jaguar will have produced no cars for roughly 18 months before it arrives