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Range Rover Sport Hybrid towing Airstream in the snow

Range Rover Sport Hybrid tows 2.5 tonne Airstream over 2,500 miles to the Arctic Circle

In a dramatic real world test of the Range Rover Sport Hybrid’s capability, the car towed the 13.1m long Airstream through some of the worst winter weather Scandinavia has experienced in living memory. Gales, record snow depths and freak icy road conditions tested crew, car and trailer to the extreme. More European Airstream owners choose […]

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Range Rover Long Wheelbase Hybrid

Land Rover Debut New Long Wheelbase Hybrid Range Rover in Beijing

Land Rover has further progressed the development of its acclaimed Range Rover with the global debut of the Range Rover Hybrid Long Wheelbase at the Beijing motor show. The derivative brings together two of the most recent innovations in the Range Rover line-up in a vehicle that offers a combination of premium luxury, interior space,

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Range Rover Hybrids Complete Silk Trail 2013

Range Rover Hybrids Finally Reach the end of the Silk Trail

Three Range Rover Diesel Hybrid prototypes have completed the ultimate engineering sign-off test by traversing 13 countries over 53 days from Solihull, UK, to Mumbai, India. It is the world’s first ever hybrid expedition along the Silk Trail and one of the boldest driving adventures ever pursued by Land Rover. Hostile conditions on the route

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Range Rovers on Silk Trail 2013

Through Nepal Towards India, Hybrid Range Rovers Soldier On the Silk Trail

The Silk Trail 2013 expedition prepared to enter the fourteenth and final country on the epic journey from Solihull to Mumbai when it passed through Nepal and reached the town of Mahendranagar on the border with India. Leaving behind high altitudes and the peaks of the Himalayas, the three Range Rover Hybrid prototypes were driven

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GKN Driveline to work with Jaguar Land Rover on the Range Rover Evoque_e powertrain

GKN Driveline Working on Evoque_e – Advanced Powertrain

GKN Driveline has been named as a key member of a new £16 million government-backed development consortium announced at LCV2013, the Low Carbon Vehicle event held at Millbrook Proving Ground, Bedford (UK, September 4-5)). GKN Driveline engineers will be part of a development programme for state-of-the-art, next-generation hybrid and battery-electric powertrain technologies based on the

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Range Rover Evoque_e

Jaguar Land Rover invest £16.3m in Hybrid and EV Technology

Jaguar Land Rover has announced its leadership of an advanced powertrain research and development programme for state-of-the-art, next-generation hybrid and battery-electric powertrain technologies based on the Range Rover Evoque platform. ‘Evoque_e’ is a two-year £16.3m UK government Technology Strategy Board project. Jaguar Land Rover will contribute £4m to the project and will lead a consortium

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