Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced that their next-generation Range Rover Evoque, Range Rover Velar, and Land Rover Discovery Sport models will be offered exclusively as electric cars. The company has confirmed that its plant in Halewood, Merseyside, will switch to producing solely electric models from 2025 and will build each of these three cars on a new platform called Electric Modular Architecture (EMA). This new architecture was previously planned to be hybrid, but it will now be electric-only due to the dramatic shift towards electric vehicles in the market. The CEO of JLR, Adrian Mardell, confirmed that "three vehicles, maybe four" will be built on EMA, including the next Evoque and Discovery Sport. The first model to be produced will be from the Range Rover family, and it is likely to be the Velar, which will switch to EMA and the Halewood plant for its second generation. The fourth model is yet to be identified, but it may be a smaller electric Defender or an additional model in the Discovery range. The new models will use batteries sourced in the longer term from a new European Tata gigafactory, but until then, they will be from an external supply contract that JLR has already secured. Last year, JLR took the first steps to convert Halewood to build electric vehicles, securing the factory's future as the company begins rolling out low- and zero-emission vehicles. The company has begun the tendering process to upgrade the factory to build cars on the new Electrified Modular Architecture.