Jaguar Land Rover's Chief Commercial Officer, Lennard Hoornik, says that the Land Rover Defender isn't likely to see an electrified variant within this current generation. Rather, packaging concerns have forced Land Rover to push back the electric Defender while design teams work on a new model that will better accommodate an electric drivetrain,

While the electric luxury SUV market continues to grow with models from all sorts of different automakers, it seems an electric Land Rover Defender isn’t coming anytime soon.Land Rover’schief commercial officer Lennard Hoornik told Autocarmagazine that it’s simply too difficult to just stuff batteries into the current Defender’s platform,

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With 626 hp, the Octa is the most powerful Defender ever, but it is also the most capable. To understand the auto industry, always follow the money. When the current Land Rover Defender launched for 2020 it was targeting those in search of rugged,

Clearly, the Defender got the nod for its meaty 493bhp supercharged V8 (which gave it half a chance of sticking with the McMurtry on the straights) not for its body control, which if we’re honest isn’t great.

Although an electric Defender is definitely in the offing, it will happen by the end of the decade on a different platform from the D7x of the current Defender