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,

The historic Halewood site near Liverpool will undergo a dramatic transformation to support JLR’s plans to electrify its model range.

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.

The UK's largest carmaker will plough a further £250m into its Halewood plant on top of the £250m it has already spent over the past year.