Tata Motors will not use new Jaguar (JEA) platform

In November last year, Tata Motors announced a collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover to share the latter’s born-electric Electrified Modular Architecture (EMA) for its upcoming Avinya range of vehicles. Jaguar’s new electric platform the Jaguar Electric Architecture (JEA) however would not be used by Tata Motors. 

The JEA platform was developed to support a range of high-end vehicles that Jaguar expects to reposition the brand and move it higher up from the ‘mass-premium’ segment that the current products operate in. Thus, in that sense JEA would be too far out for Tata Motors. The EMA platform on the other hand which was designed to underpin JLR's next generation mid-sized vehicles would make for a natural fit for Tata Motors higher segment premium range of vehicles.   

More affordable Jaguars on the anvil

While the 4-door GT will position the brand in the upper and more luxurious space, there will likely be more affordable models from Jaguar “there will be vehicles that will come after, that may perform a different role and target a wider audience” says Glover. Thus alluding to the fact that more affordable models are on the anvil. These could use both JEA and EMA platforms and would also support vehicles with different body types.

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