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Somewhere in the
Land Rover corral at the
Geneva Motor Show next to that
nine-speed ZF 9HP automatic transmission will be
seven Land Rover Defender electric research vehicles. The Advanced Engineering Team replaced the diesel in the front of its 110-Series Defender with an electric motor producing 94 horsepower and 243 pound-feet of torque running through a single-speed transmission, powered by a 300-volt lithium-ion battery with a 27kWh capacity. The resulting specs are a range beyond 50 miles, eight hours of low-speed off-road work and a four-hour recharge using a 7kW quick charger.
The air-cooled testbed can still be run like a traditional Defender and wade through 800 centimeters of water. There are no plans to make any for the public, but Land Rover will be sending the prototypes out into the world for real-world trials later this year while they study electric propulsion. Check out the press release
below for more details on the silent explorer.
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