Featuring 800-volt tech for rapid charging that could allow the EVs to chow down on 350 kW for sub-18-minute refills, the models will all be built at JLR’s Halewood plant on Merseyside in the north west of England and use batteries produced in its new Somerset facility several hours further south.

The electric crossover is expected to debut in 2027 and might be called either the Land Rover Defender Sport or the Defender 80

The latest Defender in Land Rover’s four-wheeled infantry is here – and it is quite something.