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Tata-owned brand says it will spend $3.5bn annually on electrification technology

SHARE Jaguar Land Rover said its luxury brand Jaguar will go all-electric by 2025 as it aims to become a net-zero carbon business by 2039. The car maker's second brand, Land Rover, which makes sports utility vehicles under the Range Rover, Discovery and Defender name plates, will release six electric models in the next five years. The first model will hit the market in 2024. Under its new "Reimagine" plan, JLR, which is owned by an Indian conglomerate Tata Group, said it was aiming for the electrification of both brands on “separate architectures with two clear, unique personalities”. The...

SHARE President Joe Biden raised US concerns about China's human rights record and regional policy in a call with Xi Jinping on Wednesday, his first direct contact, since taking office last month, with the leader of the world's second-largest economy . It was Mr Xi's first call with a US president since he spoke to former president Donald Trump in March last year. Since then, relations between the two countries have plunged to their worst level in decades. Mr Biden told his Chinese counterpart it was a US priority to preserve a free and open Indo-Pacific region and underscored his "fundament...

Ledyard — The town of Ledyard has ordered DRVN Enterprises to remove road salt that the company was storing in a building at 20 Lorenz Industrial Parkway, a site within 900 feet of the Ledyard Reservoir, Ledyard Mayor Fred Allyn III said. After the town was made aware Monday of salt storage on the site within the watershed, town Planning Director Liz Burdick informed DRVN Enterprises, a tenant slated to be displaced from State Pier by the end of the month, that the use was not permitted on that site and the salt needed to be removed immediately, Allyn said. Allyn said DRVN Enterprises Pres...

Montville — Dakota Partners has at last secured approval of its flood management certification application for a planned 72-unit housing development on Pink Row at the former Faria Beede Mill property. On Tuesday, Dakota Marketing Director Katie Cardillo offered an official statement on the news from the company, noting that construction should resume in the spring of this year. "The Flood Management Certification will be issued after the expiration of the 30-day public notice, which should be around the end of February," the statement reads. "The 30-day public notice was required as this ...