Land Rover transfers Discovery production to Slovakia
- Jaguar Land Rover will transfer all of Discovery's production to Slovakia, when Slovakia's Nitra plant can start manufacturing vehicles. Today, the Discovery is manufactured on the British site of Solihull (48,000 units in 2017). According to Inovev, its annual production in 2018 will be around 50,000 units per year.
- The manufacturer has indicated that the capacities that will be available as a result of this transfer will allow the manufacture of a new range of electrified vehicles (HEV, PHEV, BEV).
- The Slovak plant, which will start operating in early 2019, will be able to manufacture up to 300,000 vehicles a year. We know that the future Land Rover Defender (competitor Jeep Renegade) will also be assembled on this site.
- Jaguar Land Rover produced 584,000 vehicles in Britain in 2017, while its capacity was set at 580,000 units per year.
- In addition to Great Britain, Jaguar Land Rover manufactures vehicles in China (83,500 units in 2017), Brazil (3,000 units), India (2,000 units) and Austria, where production of Jaguar E-Pace and I -Pace has just started in early 2018. The group has manufactured 672,500 vehicles worldwide in 2017. Its capacity will increase from 700,000 to 1,000,000 units per year from the start of operation. Slovak factory of Nitra.
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