Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari

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Does it feel like people are perhaps a little grumpier or more on edge these days? It’s not like it’s without reason. There are wars. The climate is going haywire. Someone just died of plague. Scientific research is under attack. Machines keep stealing humans’ work. The media is a mess. And just when it all starts to feel a little overwhelming, Jaguar goes and unveils a new car.

如今人们是否感觉比以往更加暴躁或焦虑？这并非毫无缘由。战争频发，气候失控，瘟疫夺命，科学研究遭受攻击，机器不断抢走人类的工作，媒体乱象丛生。就在一切让人感到不堪重负之时，捷豹发布了一款新车。

The Type 01 is the first model to arrive from Jaguar’s rebirth. The British carmaker was an early entrant to the modern EV market with the 2017 I-Pace, which was fun to drive even if it was too small inside and perhaps completely unreliable. An all-electric sedan was supposed to be next, but a year from the showroom, it was abruptly canceled, leaving the automaker with nothing to sell as old models like the F-Pace ceased production.

Type 01 是捷豹重生后的首款车型。这家英国汽车制造商曾凭借 2017 年的 I-Pace 较早进入现代电动汽车市场，尽管该车内部空间狭小且可靠性堪忧，但驾驶乐趣十足。原本计划推出一款纯电轿车，但在距离展厅仅一年之遥时被突然取消，随着 F-Pace 等旧车型停产，捷豹陷入了无车可卖的境地。

Instead, Jaguar got to work on an all-new electric vehicle platform called JEA, which will underpin an all-electric product line. An elevated ownership experience and a starting price of about double the brand’s previous $60,000 entry point was the idea, Jaguar boss Rawdon Glover told me in 2024. Then last year the brand started teasing its relaunch, and everyone got upset. Things got even worse when the first images of the slab-sided and pastel-shaded Type 00 coupe concept leaked.

取而代之的是，捷豹开始研发名为 JEA 的全新电动汽车平台，该平台将支撑其全电动产品线。捷豹老板 Rawdon Glover 在 2024 年告诉我，他们的构想是提供更高端的拥车体验，起售价约为该品牌此前 6 万美元入门价格的两倍。去年，该品牌开始预热其重启计划，引发了众人的不满。当侧面平直、色调柔和的 Type 00 双门轿跑概念车首批图片泄露时，情况变得更糟了。

“The jag, it looks like a car you’d steal in Cyberpunk 2077,” said one Ars staffer approvingly. Today, we can see an iteration of that design, now a four-door GT called the Type 01. The previously brutalist shape is now adorned with the jewelry of reflectors that are required by the necessities of street legality, and of course there are now four doors rather than two.

“这辆捷豹看起来就像你在《赛博朋克 2077》里会去偷的那种车，”一位 Ars 的员工赞许道。今天，我们看到了该设计的迭代版本，即名为 Type 01 的四门 GT 车型。此前粗犷的造型如今装饰上了符合街道合法性要求的反光镜，当然，车门也从两扇变成了四扇。

There is no rear window, but then there’s no rear window in a Polestar 4, and to be frank, barely a view out the back of a Corvette or even a Land Rover Defender when the spare tire is on the back. These days the technology for a central rear-view camera that replaces the mirror is proven and robust, happily. Don’t let the bluff angles fool you—the shape still achieves a drag coefficient of 0.23.

车尾没有后窗，但极星 4 也没有后窗；坦白说，科尔维特甚至装上备胎的路虎卫士的后方视野也几乎为零。好在如今取代后视镜的中央后视摄像头技术已经成熟且稳健。别被它生硬的角度所迷惑——该造型的风阻系数依然达到了 0.23。

Coupled with a 118 kWh (usable) battery pack, that should allow for about 400 miles (644 km) on a single charge, although a formal EPA estimate will show up closer to the car’s arrival in US dealerships in mid-2027. The pack—many examples of which I saw being manufactured on a recent visit to one of Jaguar Land Rover’s factories in the English Midlands—operates at 850 V, and Jaguar says that a 350 kW DC fast charger will take the battery from 10–80 percent in 22 minutes.

配合 118 kWh（可用）的电池组，单次充电续航里程应可达 400 英里（644 公里）左右，尽管正式的 EPA 估值要等到 2027 年年中该车抵达美国经销商处时才会公布。我在最近参观捷豹路虎位于英格兰中部的一家工厂时，看到许多电池组正在制造中，其工作电压为 850 V。捷豹表示，使用 350 kW 直流快充可在 22 分钟内将电量从 10% 充至 80%。

Even though Jaguar hasn’t had any new cars to sell, it hasn’t been entirely dormant; there’s a rather effective Formula E program, after all. A few weeks ago, that powertrain scored its third team championship in four years, adding a second title for the Jaguar TCS Racing squad (the third being the customer Envision Racing team). And over the years, Jaguar’s boffins have actually learned a lot about how to design, build, and operate electric powertrains that are both powerful and efficient, and that work has direct benefits to road-going EVs.

尽管捷豹一直没有新车可卖，但它并未完全沉寂；毕竟，他们还有一个相当成功的电动方程式（Formula E）项目。几周前，该动力总成在四年内第三次夺得车队冠军，为捷豹 TCS 车队增添了第二个头衔（第三个冠军由客户车队远景车队获得）。多年来，捷豹的专家们在设计、制造和运行既强大又高效的电动动力总成方面积累了丰富经验，这些成果直接惠及了公路电动汽车。

Here, we can see that in the Type 01’s silicon carbide inverters and the car’s traction control system, to name but two. Add in a 50:50 weight distribution, all-wheel drive, all-wheel steering, and 1,015 hp (757 kW) and 1,007 lb-ft (1,365 Nm) and the Type 01 should have driving dynamics to justify the expected $120,000–$130,000 MSRP.

在 Type 01 的碳化硅逆变器和牵引力控制系统中，我们就能看到这一点。再加上 50:50 的重量分配、全轮驱动、全轮转向，以及 1,015 马力（757 kW）和 1,007 磅-英尺（1,365 Nm）的扭矩，Type 01 的驾驶动态足以支撑其 12 万至 13 万美元的预期建议零售价。

But no one cares about any of that, because it seems mostly they’re all just mad about the way it looks. “You made some classic cars along the way, too bad your final one sucks,” said one colleague this morning. “I’m not sure who that Jaguar is meant to appeal to. Zero personality executives maybe?” asked another. “Still better than the Cybertruck,” said a third, all of whom will remain nameless.

但没人关心这些，因为大家似乎只是对它的外观感到愤怒。“你们曾经制造过一些经典车型，可惜最后一款太烂了，”一位同事今天早上说。“我不确定这辆捷豹是想吸引谁。也许是毫无个性的高管？”另一位问道。“总比 Cybertruck 好，”第三位说。以上人员均保持匿名。

But the Cybertruck reference reminds us that car design can often be divisive—Elon’s Edsel certainly is. But so too was the original Ford Edsel; kinder critics said the front looked like “Oldsmobile with the prow of a Pierce-Arrow implanted in its front end, or of a teenage girl trying on her mother’s party gown.” Less kind critics compared the grille to female genitalia. It’s almost certainly apocryphal, but car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro is claimed to have exclaimed, upon seeing the deeply scalloped sides of Triumph’s new TR7, “They’ve done it on the other side too!”

但提到 Cybertruck 提醒我们，汽车设计往往会引起分歧——埃隆的 Edsel 确实如此。但最初的福特 Edsel 也是如此；温和的评论家说它的前脸看起来像“奥兹莫比尔植入了皮尔斯-阿罗的前端，或者像一个十几岁的女孩试穿她母亲的晚礼服。”刻薄的评论家则将格栅比作女性生殖器。虽然几乎可以肯定是杜撰的，但据说汽车设计师乔治亚罗在看到凯旋 TR7 深凹的侧面时惊呼道：“他们另一边也这么做了！”

The interior does not remind me of any of the Jaguars my father had in the 1980s or 1990s. In the slightest. There’s a 7-inch touchscreen to complement the 24-inch OLED screen on the dash. The center spine has storage. And have we all forgotten how the Internet lost its mind in May when Ferrari’s first EV design failed to impress?

内饰一点也不让我回想起我父亲在 80 或 90 年代拥有的任何捷豹。完全没有。仪表盘上有一个 7 英寸触摸屏，与 24 英寸 OLED 屏幕相辅相成。中央脊柱设有储物空间。我们是否都忘了五月份法拉利首款电动汽车设计未能给人留下深刻印象时，互联网是如何陷入疯狂的？

Perhaps its negative polarization, or maybe my appreciation for brutalist architecture and unloved automotive oddities like the collected works of Bristol Cars and the avant-garde stylings of Zagato, but I don’t dislike the exterior. The inside appears rather similar to the recently revealed Range Rover GT, another all-electric four-seat GT from JLR, albeit built on the EMA architecture and the off-roading capabilities that it endows. But tastes are subjective, and I’m sure the comments will reflect that.

也许是因为负面两极分化，又或许是我对粗野主义建筑以及像布里斯托汽车（Bristol Cars）的作品集和 Zagato 前卫风格这类不受欢迎的汽车怪物的欣赏，我并不讨厌它的外观。内饰看起来与最近发布的揽胜 GT 非常相似，这是捷豹路虎的另一款全电动四座 GT，尽管它是基于 EMA 架构及其赋予的越野能力打造的。但品味是主观的，我相信评论区会反映出这一点。