Jaguar?s ?Most Beautiful Car in the World? Goes Fully Electric
A look at the battery-powered Jaguar E-Type Zero revealed during Monterey Car Week.
The general rule is it’s considered uncouth to upstage the bride and groom at their own wedding. But when it’s the iconic Jaguar E-Type we’re talking about, even royalty can make an exception. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s electrified matrimonial Jaguar E-Type Zero sparked such great interest with its appearance at the conclusion of the Royal Wedding this past May, the British luxury automotive manufacturer decided to turn a one-off fairytale into the reality of a production vehicle.
The Jaguar E-type Zero concept held court at Monterey Car Week’s The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, showing off its orange clad block of batteries underneath a tastefully painted Bespoke Bronze hood. Though our own interest in the royal wedding itself was admittedly tepid at best, word of their one-of-kind electrified rendition of the iconic monocoque 1968 British sports car being duplicated for production definitely ignited an audible amount of approval and wide-eyed interest with its announcement and appearance at the exclusive The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering during this past week’s Monterey Car Week.
Here again was the epitome of the brand’s embodiment of “grace, space, and pace” philosophy, this time graced in Bespoke Bronze finish and fitted with an electric powertrain with single-speed reduction gear capable of moving the elegant bu...
The general rule is it’s considered uncouth to upstage the bride and groom at their own wedding. But when it’s the iconic Jaguar E-Type we’re talking about, even royalty can make an exception. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s electrified matrimonial Jaguar E-Type Zero sparked such great interest with its appearance at the conclusion of the Royal Wedding this past May, the British luxury automotive manufacturer decided to turn a one-off fairytale into the reality of a production vehicle.
The Jaguar E-type Zero concept held court at Monterey Car Week’s The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, showing off its orange clad block of batteries underneath a tastefully painted Bespoke Bronze hood. Though our own interest in the royal wedding itself was admittedly tepid at best, word of their one-of-kind electrified rendition of the iconic monocoque 1968 British sports car being duplicated for production definitely ignited an audible amount of approval and wide-eyed interest with its announcement and appearance at the exclusive The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering during this past week’s Monterey Car Week.
Here again was the epitome of the brand’s embodiment of “grace, space, and pace” philosophy, this time graced in Bespoke Bronze finish and fitted with an electric powertrain with single-speed reduction gear capable of moving the elegant bu...
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