Jaguar Type 01 - Walkaround with Jon Darlington

I'm John Darlington, I'm the chief engineer for the new Jaguar, the Type 01. I'm just going to walk you through some of the highlights on the car, but before I do that, just a little bit about my personal journey. I joined this programme five years ago when it was a clean sheet of paper and it's a massive honour of mine to basically lead the engineering team to reimagine the Jaguar brand. So it's something that I'm hugely passionate about and there's a massive team behind us who have got the same passion and energy to do something truly special. if we just look at this car and we think about the proportions you know it is it is low it is long it is cab rearward it's got some really challenging proportions what that meant from an engineer's viewpoint is is that it really gives us some something to get our teeth into and the first bit for me was it had to be an unique architecture it had to be bespoke so this is dedicated to Jaguar and the reasons for that is to make sure we capture those proportions that are so important jaguar but really make sure we land that driven experience which is so again important to that jaguar so if we just maybe touch on some of those highlights i'm going to start at the back of the car so i mentioned it was low it's 1.4 meters high that's really low for an ev but then we then got to think about how we enable that so we've got a unique layout on this battery pack we actually split the battery pack we don't run any batteries in this area at all and that is about giving the space back into row two to make that that posture really comfortable so you've got a comfortable position in row two also as well you want to be able to sit in this car you don't want to sit on it you want to be immersed in that in that feeling so we actually mount the row one seat in that area so you've got a really good sitting feel in the car which is so important for a Jaguar clearly though we need to make sure we've got enough energy on board in this car to deliver really credible power and range so we've made that job harder by not running any battery cells in this area so we had to think about how we enabled that so if I walk forward on the car there's a really unique feature on this car and it's one of the main reasons why we're on a unique architecture in this area here so forward of the bulkhead behind the front wheel we've got an industry-first structural solution on the car we call it the Tri Apex Node and it allows us to run battery cells in this area and then the battery management system in this area really make use of this space that enables us to keep the car low but also get that energy on board and by using this space that delivers another 150 horsepower and about 70 miles of range to you as the you as the customer which is just shows that sort of attention and creation in the car and i think it's such an amazing product and i'm so proud to have been part of it and there's some really unique solutions in here which i think are truly amazing so just to build on that unique front end structure that we've got in this car if you think about we've got a dedicated BEV architecture that's allowed us to really think about how we manage the connections through this car so focus on those large cast nodes but into extrusions inclusion of the battery pack into the structure that's allowed us to deliver the stiffest Jaguar ever so it's 51.7 kilonewtons per degree of torsional stiffness in the car really really important for that foundation of refinement and dynamics and that allows us to really build on that driven character that's so important for Jaguar and is really one of the other key elements of having a bespoke architecture so really really important for delivering that that driven experience. So during the development of this car we've absolutely focused on the validation methods so we've we've done things we've not done before we've gone earlier with physical prototypes than we normally do on a program we are going with a brand new car first off architecture it's important that we validate those key points also before Before we went ahead of those prototypes to ensure they were as mature as they could be, we did extensive virtual testing, extensive rig testing to make sure that when we got to those first prototypes that they were as mature as they could be. So that was testing propulsion systems, software systems, all of those key hardware systems on the car. And to put that into context for you, we did over 200,000 hours of testing to really make sure that those systems were credible. And then we ran those prototypes for over 750,000 miles over all of the conditions around world from frozen lakes in Sweden all the way through to hot locations and and really extreme conditions to make sure that this car is the best car it can possibly be and also to make sure that all you need to worry about is enjoying the driven experience so for us we're super proud on how we delivered this car and uh it is a great testament to the future of Jaguar so we are so proud with what we've achieved with Type 01 so put that into context it's the stiffest Jaguar ever it's the It's the most refined, it's the most powerful, it is the most aerodynamic. It's also got 360 filed patent applicants, which makes it the most patented Jaguar ever. And all of that while holding that design vision. So truly proud of what we've achieved with Type 01.