Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will spend half a billion pounds upgrading a factory for electric vehicle production, it has been announced. The manufacturer said the investment would transform its historic Halewood facility on Merseyside to support the production of electric vehicles,

JLR says the Merseyside plant will become "the factory of the future" but it is yet to decide which all-electric model it will produce there first, as global demand for EVs remains on rough ground.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced plans to invest £500m to transform one its historic factories to help build more electric vehicles.

The future of electric vehicles in the UK has been boosted by Jaguar Land Rover announcing a massive £500million funding package to transform its historic Halewood facility. The investment aims to create the "EV factory of the future" and support the parallel production of electric cars alongside existing combustion and hybrid models.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), a subsidiary of India-based Tata Motors Limited, plans to invest £500m ($669 million) to revamp its electric vehicle (EV) factory in Halewood, a small town outside Liverpool.