2018款捷豹I-Pace合成图近日曝光。量产版整体设计与概念版不会有很大不同。该车总设计师Ian Callum表示，概念车80%的车身元素都与量产版一样。先前拍到的量产版谍照显示，量产版确实与去年洛杉矶车展亮相的概念车很接近，因此这次意大利团队绘制的合成图可以说很好的展示了量产版造型。捷豹将在今年法兰克福车展发布这款车，该车采用全新电动车结构，搭载90千瓦时锂电池组和双电机（前后轴各一台），输出功率300千瓦/400马力，扭矩700牛米，按照NEDC标准，续航可达310英里（约合500公里），而按照更实际的EPA标准，续航里程至少220英里（约合354公里）。车辆0-96公里/小时加速时间约为4秒。该车将于明年初在麦格纳斯太尔位于奥地利的工厂组装，随后将于明年上市。
2018 Jaguar I-Pace Render Shows Realistic Production Design
While some concepts are just too outlandish to ever morph into production cars, Jaguar decided to keep its I-Pace closer to reality for its debut at the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show. That’s why attempting to see into the future of the road-going model shouldn’t be that hard as the concept’s design was already feasible for a production car. Jag’s Design Chief, Ian Callum, even said the vehicle from L.A. had approximately 80 percent of the final look.
Recent spy shots have shown the road-going model will indeed echo the design of the showcar from the City of Angels, so this digital design exercise coming from our Italian colleagues at OmniAuto was an easy task to accomplish.
Jaguar will host the world premiere of the Tesla Model X-fighting I-Pace at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show in September, but we might see it on the World Wide Web a few weeks sooner.
The brand’s very first EV, the I-Pace is going to pack a large 90-kWh battery with enough juice to last for more than 310 miles (500 kilometers) between charges as per the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) or 220 miles (354 km) in the more realistic EPA tests.
Power will be provided by a pair of electric motors, one driving the front axle and the other sending its output to the rear wheels to enable an AWD setup with 400 hp (300 kW) and 516 pound-feet (700 Newton-meters) of torque.
Described by Callum as being perhaps the “most important” Jaguar model since the launch of the iconic E-Type, the new I-Pace will have the performance to match its sleek body. Getting from 0 to 60 mph (96 kph) is going to take approximately four seconds, so it will be only a tenth of a second slower in the sprint than the F-Type R, a full-blown sports coupe.
Sales of the I-Pace are expected to commence early 2018 once production at Magna Steyr’s Austrian plant will begin.