Jaguar's 986-HP Type 01 Debuts Tuesday. Here's What We Still Don't Know
Jaguar's 986-hp electric four-door GT debuts in New York on October 6. Power is official; the exterior, U.S. price, range rating, and on-sale date are not.
Jaguar will pull the cover off the Type 01 in New York on Tuesday, October 6. The four-door electric GT is the first car of the brand's reset and the first production model on its new Jaguar Electric Architecture (JEA). Jaguar has already shown the cabin and published the power figure. The body, the price, the range rating, and the U.S. on-sale date are still under wraps.
New York was a deliberate choice. Jaguar's North American brand director Brandon Baldassari told Test Miles in August that the U.S. will be the brand's "number one market" for volume and profitability. The Type 01 already sits in our tracker of every new EV coming to America in 2027. Here are the five questions Tuesday has to answer.
1. What does it actually look like?
Officially, we have still only seen a camouflaged prototype. Test cars appeared in a camouflage wrap in Monaco in May and wore a new wrap at Pebble Beach in August. The production body is expected to follow the Type 00 concept that Jaguar unveiled at Miami Art Week in December 2024. That concept split opinion like few cars in recent memory: a long hood, no rear window, and a shape Jaguar says is a "copy of nothing."
Some details are confirmed. The Type 01 name sits on a "strikethrough" graphic where the hood meets the windshield, and Jaguar says that motif continues inside to visually merge the hood with the slim dashboard. The open question is how much of the concept's drama survived crash structures, mirrors, and a usable rear seat.
2. How far will it go on a charge?
Power is no longer a mystery. Jaguar says three motors deliver more than 1,000 PS (986 hp) and over 1,300 Nm (959 lb-ft). Range is a different story. When Jaguar showed the Type 00, it targeted up to 478 miles (770 km) on the European WLTP cycle and up to 200 miles of range added in 15 minutes of fast charging. Those were goals for a concept, not ratings for the production car.
Expect an EPA figure, if Jaguar gives one on Tuesday, to land below the WLTP number, as it does for almost every EV sold on both sides of the Atlantic. Battery capacity, peak charging power, curb weight, and acceleration times have not been published.
3. What will it cost in America?
There is no MSRP yet. Baldassari told Test Miles that Jaguar expects an average transaction price of around $130,000 under the new strategy, roughly double the brand's current figure of about $70,000. At the Type 00 debut, British reports put the production car "north of £100,000," and Autocar has since pointed to £120,000 to £150,000 for well-equipped versions. None of those numbers is an official price.
If the U.S. figure does start with a "1," the Type 01 lands among six-figure electric luxury cars rather than against the Porsche Taycan's entry trims. That neighborhood is getting crowded, from Lucid's Air Sapphire to Bentley's first EV, the Torcal SUV, which shows how quickly the old guard is moving.
4. When can you buy one, and where?
Jaguar has not published a U.S. on-sale date. Autocar, citing JLR's June investor day, expects sales to start in the first half of 2027, and other British outlets have said early 2027 for first deliveries. The reveal itself has already moved several times. At the Type 00 launch, Jaguar promised the production car by late 2025. In May it said "later this year," and the September timing that was widely reported then became October 6.
Where you can buy one is also changing. Baldassari said the U.S. retail network is shrinking from roughly 200 stores to about 80, and that those 80 dealers "are all in" after seeing the car without camouflage in the U.K. Jaguar says the Type 01 is "designed, developed and built" in Britain but has not named the plant. That matters for timing, and possibly for the final U.S. price.
5. Can one car carry an entire brand?
This is the question Tuesday cannot fully answer, but it frames everything else. Jaguar wound down its previous lineup to make room for the reset, so for now the Type 01 is the whole story. It is a halo car and a volume plan at the same time. Its sister brand is taking the opposite route: Range Rover is adding electric versions of familiar nameplates, such as the Range Rover Electric, rather than starting from zero.
Jaguar is betting that buyers in this price range want something that does not look like the default German choice. "It's very easy for people to go off and buy a BMW or Mercedes or an Audi and sort of follow the crowd," Baldassari said. He also ruled out a hedge: JEA is electric-only, with "no plans to hybridize it." If buyers push back on the design or the price, Jaguar has no gasoline fallback.
What to watch on Tuesday
- The production exterior, and how close it stays to the Type 00
- An EPA-estimated range, or at least a U.S. range target
- Battery size and peak DC charging power
- A U.S. starting price and whether reservations open
- A U.S. delivery window and model year
Tesla is staging its own delayed reveal nine days later, and we laid out the questions facing the Roadster too. We will update this story with official figures as soon as Jaguar publishes them.
