{"id":11876,"date":"2019-04-01T22:27:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T05:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=11876"},"modified":"2019-04-01T22:27:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T05:27:03","slug":"jaguar-i-pace-voted-2019-european-car-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=11876","title":{"rendered":"Jaguar I-PACE voted 2019 European Car of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11877\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11877\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11877\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jagipaceecotyimagelogo040319-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jagipaceecotyimagelogo040319-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jagipaceecotyimagelogo040319-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jagipaceecotyimagelogo040319-1024x593.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jagipaceecotyimagelogo040319-345x200.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jagipaceecotyimagelogo040319.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaguar I-PACE.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jaguar\u2019s all-electric I-PACE has been voted \u2018Car of the Year\u2019 at the European Car of the Year Awards 2019. This is the first time a Jaguar has won the coveted prize.<\/p>\n<p>The European Car of the Year jury comprises 60 motoring journalists from 23 countries and the award recognizes technical innovation, design, performance, efficiency and value for money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For our first electric vehicle to also be the first Jaguar to win European Car of the Year gives us a huge sense of pride,\u201d said Prof. Dr. Ralf Speth, chief executive officer of Jaguar Land Rover. \u201cI-PACE was designed and engineered in the UK from a clean sheet of paper. It is the most technologically advanced battery electric vehicle. It\u2019s a true game-changer. Winning European Car of the Year is an honour and real recognition of what our world-class team has delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Designed and developed in the UK, the Jaguar I-PACE has had more than 8,000 customer deliveries to date \u2013 75 per cent of them in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The I-PACE is engineered to take full advantage of its electric powertrain and bespoke aluminium architecture, offering sports car performance and SUV practicality.<\/p>\n<p>Charging is made easy for customers using the Jaguar public charging service, accessed via a dedicated app or using an RFID (radio-frequency identification) key.<\/p>\n<p>The I-PACE has received 55 awards worldwide since it was revealed a year ago, including German, Norwegian and UK Car of the Year, BBC\u00a0<em>TopGear<\/em>\u00a0magazine EV of the Year, China Green Car of the Year, and Autobest\u2019s ECOBEST Award.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaguar\u2019s all-electric I-PACE has been voted \u2018Car of the Year\u2019 at the European Car of the Year Awards 2019. This is the first time a Jaguar has won the coveted prize. 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