Grit Daily – Jaguar Is Going All Electric By 2025, Prompting New Discourse On Renewables

British car brand Jaguar announced new plans to become all electric by 2025. The automaker said that it will undergo a “renaissance” to emerge as a pure electric luxury brand.

Thierry Bolloré, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover, also revealed the company’s newest, global strategy: Reimagine.

Bolloré described the strategy as one “designed to create a new benchmark in environmental, societal and community impact for a luxury business.”

“We are harnessing those ingredients today to reimagine the business, the two brands and the customer experience of tomorrow, Bolloré said. “The Reimagine strategy allows us to enhance and celebrate that uniqueness like never before. Together, we can design an even more sustainable and positive impact on the world around us.”

The news does not only limit itself to the Jaguar brand. JLR announced plans for Land Rover to make electric moves, as well.

Over the next five years, the Land Rover brand expects to release six, purely electric variants of its currently vehicles; the company also said that the first of the six will come out in 2024.

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A Future Impact

With all of these announcements, it seems like electric is the way of the future, but how exactly will that impact the environment, as well as our way of living?

Michael Bakas, Executive Vice President at Ameresco, says most people believe that the best way to combat greenhouse gas emissions involves going electric, but with that, electricity production still generates the second largest share of greenhouse gas emissions.

“The more we ‘electrify,’ the greater the load to supply, likely leading to a further increase in greenhouse gas emissions,” Bakas said. “The only way to counter this will be to generate electricity using renewable fuel (e.g. Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), Hydrogen, Renewable Diesel, etc.) and resources (e.g. Solar, Wind, etc.),” he says.

To help charging stations become more carbon friendly, Bakas says that the electricity serving that station must become the focal point of the conversation rather than the station itself.

“For instance,” he says “If the electricity consumed at a charging station was produced using a renewable energy source like RNG, then the impact on greenhouse gas emissions would be tremendous … The ability to use renewable natural gas in existing gas infrastructure makes it a cost-effective option in the near term even as electrification efforts accelerate.”

Bakas also believes that with the current administration’s focus on sustainability, along with a continued focus on climate change across the globe, it is not surprising that we have seen recent automakers’ decisions to roll out all-electric vehicles in the future.

“With a potential increase in momentum from leading automakers,” he says. “We hope to see adoption and support of alternative fuel use to further advance carbon reduction at charging stations.”

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