Jaguar I-Pace
Welcome to the future: SUV space, supercar pace, off-roading grace. Oh, and zero emissions
Words Darren Styles
CARS
Every new car is lauded by its maker as being a breakthrough — the next best thing since the last best thing was the next best thing. But the new Jaguar I-Pace, just on sale, is genuinely one of those once-ina- generation cars, maybe even a once-in-alifetime car.
It’s the first all-electric product from a premium European brand, and its breadth of capabilities — on and off-road (our Portuguese test drive included wading along a river bed and climbing a mountain) — throws off many of the known Electric Vehicle (EV) shortcomings of old. It will, for example, travel almost 300 miles on a single charge, comparable to the range of a conventional petrol car on a full tank of fuel.