JLR India reports 36% YoY growth in H1
JLR India has announced that it witnessed 36 per cent year-on-year sales growth for the first half of fiscal year 2025. The British marque sold 3,214 units in the country, alongside reporting an increase in sales of 41 per cent in Q2 FY25 followed the increase of 31 pe cent in Q1 FY25.
The automaker says that this sales result was driven by improved supplies and sustained demand for the Range Rover and Defender, and above all, the local assembly of the entire Range Rover line-up. Speaking of which, the orders of the locally produced Range Rover and Range Rover Sport surged by 60 per cent, while the Defender recorded a 75 per cent jump in H1 FY25. Meanwhile, the recently introduced Range Rover SV Ranthambore Edition was limited to only 12 examples across India, and they are all already reserved.
In other news, JLR, in last month, revealed that a £500 million investment to transform its Halewood manufacturing plant to support the parallel production of electric vehicles (EVs), alongside existing combustion and hybrid models. This facility was built in 1963 to produce the Ford Anglia.
With £250 million already invested, the site has been extended by 32,364sqm to produce JLR's mediumâ€'sized electric luxury SUVs on the new Electric Modular Architecture (EMA) platform. For this, the facility has been equipped with new EV build lines, 750 autonomous robots, ADAS calibration rigs, laser alignment technology for perfect part fitment and the latest cloud based digital plant management systems to oversee production.
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