JLR Invests IDR 10 Trillion Of Halewood Factory Modernization, Ready For EV, Hybrid, And ICE Production

The Halewood factory in England is owned by JLR which will produce electric vehicles. (Doc. Jaguar Land Rover)

JAKARTA - Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced an investment of 500 million pounds (Rp 10.1 trillion) to revolutionize the historic Halewood plant in the UK to support the production of the latest electric vehicle (EV), ICE, and hybrid parallels.

The investment is part of the company's commitment to the Reimagine strategy, which makes JLR a fully electrified brand by 2030 by reaching zero carbon across its products, supply chains, and operations for 2039.

Electrification is at the heart of this strategy and Halewood is one of the assets that must be utilized to produce JLR's first EV production model ICE, PHEV, and BEV side by side before finally becoming JLR's first EV production facility.

Halewood will be our first EV production facility, and this is proof of the team's brilliant efforts and our suppliers who have worked together to equip the plant with the technology needed to present world-class luxury electric vehicles, JLR Industrial Operations Executive Director Barbara Bergmeier, quoted from the JLR website, Friday, September 27.

JLR said that half of the investments had been spent expanding factories up to 32,364 square meters to produce medium-sized EV premium SUVs with the latest Electric Modular Architecture (EMA) platform.

One of the oldest factories owned by JLR is equipped with technology including the latest EV assembly, 750 autonomous robots, ADAS calibration rigs, laser alignment technology for spare parts installation, and the latest cloud-based digital factory management system to oversee production.

In addition, the Halewood factory will be equipped with the latest body shop that produces 500 vehicles per day. Then, the assembly site is equipped with a painting workshop that is modified along 1.4 km.

There is a new body storage area that is automatically painted and capable of storing as many as 600 vehicle bodies. Then, the end production line length has been increased from 4 km to 6 km to accommodate battery installation.

The place is also equipped with advanced facilities such as 40 Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) introduced to assist employees in installing high-voltage batteries and providing training to 1,600 employees to install batteries into electric vehicles.

This factory was first built in 1963 in producing Ford Anglia. Now, the venue is ready to transform in assembling electric vehicles.