Electric Range Rover orders open after JLR cyberattack

Jaguar Land Rover opened orders on Wednesday for a new fully electric Range Rover, one year after a major cyberattack halted production and hit the British carmaker's finances.

JLR chief operating officer Nigel Blenkinsop said the timing of the launch was a “coincidence” and said the company had “recovered really, really strongly”. He said production had returned to normal levels quickly after the incident.

JLR, owned by India's Tata Motors, said at the start of September 2025 that it had been targeted by hackers, forcing it to halt production for more than one month. The company said the attack cost it £196 million, or $264 million.

The carmaker posted a £244 million loss in its fiscal year ending in March, compared with a £1.8 billion net profit in 2024/5. The Cyber Monitoring Centre estimated the hack cost the UK economy £1.9 billion.

Blenkinsop declined to comment on those wider cost estimates or on a New York Times report, citing sources close to the investigation, that Russian hackers were involved.

JLR plans to build between 12,000 and 15,000 electric Range Rovers over the next six months. The model has a UK starting price of £154,070, a range of up to 372 miles and can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 4.3 seconds. It will be built in Solihull, central England.