Jaguar I-Pace, off road and on track | Fully Charged 

It's great that the I-Pace turned out to be a decent EV. Competition from established auto manufacturers will be good for everyone!

Dear Robert, you keep referring to "proper journalists" and such, but I think I speak for most Fully Charged viewers when I say I prefer your un-proper approach to reviewing a car. It's very spontaneous, informal and fun, and I like it a lot. There's enough of that "proper" bollocks on every other motoring channel, where they ramble on about boring motoring journalist stuff like how good the chassis is and the sharpness of the steering and other stuff 95% of us don't care about. And the next time your in Portugal, give me a shout, we'll go for a coffee :D

Now I really want one. Thanks Robert!

Jaguar gave people an option for the artificial sound . It can be turned off. But by default , its off. But some people still seem to be triggered by the fact that's it's even an option .

A really interesting car. I think this will certainly give the Model-S some competition at last.

Just not enough manufacturers producing affordable options :(

Excellent video Robert. Hopefully this recent influx of 'premium' EVs from big name manufacturers will help to trickle down the tech and result in more affordable middle of the range options for the rest of us.

hard to believe jaguar was floundering and dated just a decade ago. this is a watershed for jaguar.

So Proud of my beautiful Country

Love that sci-fi sound it makes!

The only unbiased review I've seen. Top Gear said the range was 120 miles! Autocar said it didn't handle like a Jaguar and that all electric cars are the same - sigh !

"And of course they were all fully charged!"

I really like the look of the Jaguar I pace. Form AND Function.

I truly, positively want one!

This car is indeed BRILLIANT! Love that sound, and the off-roading, OMG! Nice video. I was waiting for your take on this one. Good job!

IMHO this is the best EV on the market right now. Vere well done, Jaguar!

I prefer this Jaguar over the Tesla Model X. This is a great car.

The I Pace is a good looking car , it is more stylish and more like a real car on the inside and not as minimalist as Tesla which I think is a good thing Styling is great , would not say no to one ...

Thank you for this great video (as always). Keep the great works. All best.

Have to give some kudos to Jaguar. At least they are extremely aggressive in their communication. Sounds like all this is a "world first", but I guess it's well documented that this already happened 3 (?) years ago, even bigger (spacier), heavier and more powerful (and vastly over-engineered). But at least "they" are coming along now. Anxiously awaiting the Audi E-tron (2019), the Mercedes EQ (2019ish?) and BMW iX3 (2020 jeeeeeezzzzzz). Glad you mentioned the supercharger network. It's not just a minor detail (when doing trips). Cheers!

I have high hopes for the I Pace! Good job Jaguar!

I love it. Major auto makers are starting to make some really compelling electric cars. It's not a Tesla, but I do credit Tesla for creating the demand for this kind of car. I doubt Jaguar would have made the I-Pace if there was never a Model X. As for me, it might as well be a space ship. I could never afford one, but I'm starting to think that we might actually see an EV for less than $20,000 with a 150-200 mile range some time soon. That's something average people can afford and that's when we'll know that we've arrived.

I love your sign off more than any other..., " as always, if you have been, thank you for watching." I look forward to that sign off at the end of every video! Love it!

Totally sold me. Best test drive a vehicle I've ever seen. And wouldn't you know it they did think to add sound.

Thank you for mentioning the fact that P100D would be faster than this car. It bugged a lot of people when Jaguar announced that this thing "is faster than a Tesla". It was a corny move on Jaguar's part. :)

This video reminds me of topgear of old. (90's) That's supposed to be a compliment by the way 🙂 A well produced car review by someone who cares about what they're doing.

Jaguar in creating exciting and impeccable EV shocker! And having watched a couple of the others, a great review to boot. Interesting point about the charging though, bigger range requires bigger batteries, and bigger batteries require bigger chargers. I recently plugged my 41Kwh Zoe into a granny cable ( 13 amp socket ) and was presented with a charging time of 27 hours....so what's the iPace? 60 odd?....that's two and half days!! Our 7Kw home charger will do it in around 5hrs, but again for the iPace you have to double that and then some. Public charging assuming you're on a motorway or near a city is 50Kw (ish) but away from the hubs, the situation in rural England is pretty dire. Pop over the Chanel or the Irish Sea and things are very different, 22kw charging posts in everything from a large village upwards, so it strikes me that we need a massive investment in the network to make cars like this really work, and don't look at the government because the very last thing they really want to do is spend more to receive less in revenue.

Congratulations on 300K subscribers, well deserved!

Nice!

Love this car! I can't part with the Tesla Supercharger network (yet), but aside from that I think this is a very compelling vehicle.

Fully Charged seems to have upped its game considerably. Great review and the off road section - the car seems to be on its road tyres - which is very impressive.

So nice to see you and the i-Pace in the Algarve hills! Next time you're around, take me along for the ride - especially if you're going to be using those traction control features!!! Loved it!

I find it a fascinating insight into human nature(or the nature of contributors here -not the same thing!), that a significant number-it's into the hundreds! - have gone on and on - and on! about the sound effect! A trivial point to say the least. And as it's optional, meaning that it can be switched off - that's SWITCHED OFF... Then surely it's a complete non-issue!? This is clearly a highly competent and very attractive car - we should concentrate on that....

That noise thing is SOOOOO COOOOL

I was waiting for this review!!

Great video! Especially the offroad part ;)

Sweet car

What's great about Tesla is not just in the car, and the supercharger network, but also all the data that get sent and received from their servers to improve their understanding of the road conditions, usage and to upgrade their car. When you enter a Tesla, you enter a connected network of vehicles. Tesla is often dubbed a tech company that does cars. When you get an into an iPace, it seems to me that you enter a product from a car maker that tried tech. Its all a bit marketing and image, but that remains the main difference to me. Point in fact, we don't hear a lot about what the interface of the car is capable of (or isn't). We mostly hear about how well it handles, which of course, better be good coming from a car maker.

Your joy and excitement made me want to buy the car. You're jaguars best sales man lol. Great video! Thank you.

Brilliant car, brilliant episode. Love the "warp 5, mr. Sulu" noise. Or, in this case, "Warp 5, Vicar" ;-)

This thing is awesome and great for the EV revolution. I think these new EVs will actually be competition for ICE much more then existing EVs, as EVs are so much better. Thus they will actually contribute to growing the EV market and helping all EVs. Just listen to how often the other EVs are mentioned in these videos :) Soon EVs will not be only 2% of the car market.

With PROPER journalists.. I guess that means you are one of them..

Bought one. Love it much. Really great build quality and the self-driving on well-striped highways works.

Another excellent video from you guys. Looks like this will really take Jaguar to the forefront of upmarket new car sales - good luck to them.

Flying someone out to test an electric car is a little inconsistent with cutting CO2 emissions but if I'd been offered the trip I'd have taken it so I am a huge hypocrite. Outside the bubble of EV fans I find friends are all pretty much determined to hang on to their diesels, they don't have half an hour to stop to charge in a day (presumably none of them eat or pee) and they seem to think the 600 mile range of their car is also an essential feature. For me charging at home is the main benefit of an EV but most people look at the charge time rather than the fact it just takes a few seconds to plug in and the car would be parked anyway. There is some hope though because they find the 3p per mile my car costs to run and the pick up away from the lights (even in a Zoe) has stopped the milk float jokes. Most people I talk to still believe that EVs aren't really that much cleaner than diesels because of the energy used in battery manufacture and they assume that the national grid is a lot less clean that it actually is so the emissions are just being shifted to a power station (in other words there is still a lot of education required) - rant over!

Uses CCS charging , will be able to use the Ionity network ,

I don't think rapid charging will be an issue as most folks in the UK don't do long or very long car journey's. The range of the IPACE will offset some of the benefits of the TESLA supercharger network. As Robert said HOME CHARGING is the Premier point of charging, and then for longer journeys use the POLAR/CHARGEMASTER Rapid Network --select the default option to show only rapid on the polar live map. OR Motorway service stations with Ecotricty network --remember this JAGUAR is charging on 7 kw STD or 50kw CCS. Only one car on a charger at any one time. I find doing a long journey its best to be fully charged or plus 80% on the battery. ie 230miles so as the first and in most cases the only charge is when "Bladder Anxiety" kicks in, I do the North West every few months ( 250 miles)-- leave the Gatwick Area with a pretty full battery --and stop at Warwick Services M40 Supercharger 15--20 mins -loo-coffee-sandwich off in 30mins or so.. ( top up 170 miles plus ) This jaguar sold right, by sales people who know what they are talking about, could sell like hot cakes, that i feel is great, As a Tesla owner I welcome another Electric car to the road, the same with new Nissan LEAF fantastic. My only regret is that they ( jaguar ) could have built it in the UK. (I guess they were future proofing against Brexit ).

Very enjoyable video guys great work

Nice car. I like the sound. EV's are so quiet and with no shift points it is easy to go over the speed limit. I found out in March. The manufacturers need to have an alert when you are going over the speed limit, one you can set. You can do it with your phone with the appropriate app but I would rather the car alert me. Good video. Makes me want to drive one when they hit the states.

Looks like the iPace will be a winner

I was in London the other day and I suddenly realised, whilst on the underground, where Jaguar took the inspiration for their "engine noise" from. It's obviously the sound that a London Underground train makes when it's pulling out of the station.

Picking up my new ipace next Friday, so bloody exited!

Nice off road tracks near Monchique, aren't they?

I would buy it for it's awesome built quality and simplicity of the design.Tesla should learn from Jaguar and up its game.

Sounds like the air noises don't effect it. Very impressive and love the off road. Thank you fully charged

Got to sit in one at the Michigan International Auto Show, nice car! Great documentary on how Jaguar made the I pace, Jaguar: Going Electric, very fascinating story behind the car that I got to sit in at the show, and the work that went into making this car.

Good Review, I've had Jags and now a Tesla. Buyers should consider 4 main things when weighing up against Tesla, Supercharger network and Autopilot are big bonuses for Tesla, and the reliability and Interior quality for the Jag ( ignore off road, no one will risk that). Tesla Superchargers are hassle free and fast, public chargers can be a lottery, too many 'Iced', occupied, or faulty chargers to plan a trip with them. Yes it will get better, but it's not there right now. I love Jags, had them for many year, but Tesla's Autopilot is so relaxing and safe to use, So I could never buy a Jag again until they have an equivalent AP function. I do miss the Jag superior interior quality they are very good at it , Tesla is just 'Good' but certainly not bad like some people make it out to be. Tesla also has a slight 'space ship' sound to it, but it's genuine motor sound, not fake sound.

It’s working. Tesla is forcing other carmakers to build compelling BEVs. The sound effect is a no brainer but a clever marketing stunt.

The Jaguar I-Pace is Jag's return to form to say so. A nice looking sporty car which is electric without compromises and not an electrified version of a combustion engine car based on a platform which was designed a combustion engine in mind. All the German premium brands have completely missed out on nice electric cars and I think they will pay for it.

Did you hear it? Absolutely nothing when car was climbing up on off road track. You can clearly hear Robert talking. This is the electric car without any aded stupid noise. This is what you want. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Did you not get to talk with your co-driver? Would've been nice to hear any information from him, like about the hill climb.

EPIC car!!!

The ride seems so smooth that it looks like its floating. So far, i am really liking what i see from them.

LOVE The Presentation. Some day I Will

It’s sounds amazing and it’s certainly an exciting vehicle. My only concern is the clear disadvantage you have without the Supercharger network, when you do need to use a public charger. The UK charging network is fragmented and frustrating, a lot of place only have a couple of chargers which could either be engaged or entirely broken when you arrive. The benefit you have with a Tesla is that Superchargers are everywhere and there’s always 20+ of them at each location (and they’re well maintained), oh and don’t require 5 different membership cards! We just need to get our head around a sustainable and simple charging infrastructure because right now it seems Tesla are the only ones making any effort with that.

Love the design! Only one huge problem is charging...90KW battery and only up to 7,2 Kw charging on 1 phase. Only a 32A 220 V socket!! Cost a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A 3 phase 16A 11 kw home charging with Tesla is so superior and cost much less to install if you have 3 phase. So if your not very very rich you will use a 220V 16 A = 3,6 kw. So going somewhere? Fill 80 Kw (nearly empty).. 22 hours...:-( I-Pace. A Telsa 80Kw = 7 hours :-) . If Jaguar fix that I will buy it in a flash...

There are few things in a mans life that can turn a man to jelly. Thank You for giving me a reason to live again. The sound of that Jag is AWESOME!

Another really interesting video vicar

I believe the sound is artificial. Jaguar engineers wanted an auditory feedback for the driver when they are mashing the accelerator. Might sound cool, but it is basically a video game sound effect. I think Tesla would consider the sound rather silly, but Robert appears to be under its spell.

I like the noise of that i Pace, it's cool. I'm aware that loads of people don't like it but the fact that it's a Jaguar, which is a symbol for elegance and fancy stuff to me, for them to put a childish fun noise in it as an option is just so cool and being a petrol head, if I'm to move to electric, I still want noise and options are always nice. I'm a massive kid =P To the silly buggers that are saying that they won't bother with the i pace even though you can the noise off are just electric car snobs and they can just go and drive a Tesla, you boring snobs. Robert had a sort of Captain Slow moment on the track hahaa, great stuff.

I love that sound when acelerating.lovely car. Cant wait to get one.

Well thanks a bloody lot, Robert. Now I want one.

I love that sound.

The first really legitimate competitor to the Model S. But it has a price to match. it'd be nice if they offered a lower spec, single motor version, with perhaps 60-75 kwh of battery eventually as well.

The first proper Jaguar ever.

Great to see another manufacturer getting on board with a car that they actually want to sell a lot of. Kudos to Jaguar!

Just what Elon wants to see happen. Tesla can't do it alone.

That acceleration noise is what I think all EV’s should sound like, it’s like their version of an engine note

Great review!

Love the noise, for the sense of power on acceleration

Very nice, is the American model the same ?

Are you going to swap your Model S for an I-Pace?

Amazing Review. I was blown away by the fact that it could do offroading without much fuss, unlike Tesla Model X which is super costly, branded as 1st electric SUV when it actually is an MUV. I am a die-hard Tesla fan but man, Jaguar are doing great work. Eagerly waiting for this car. It looks beautiful, sounds energetic and has a range. It is going to be a tough competitor to Model X.​

Robert: I wish you'd talk about ICE competitors versus pitting one EV versus another like the pie is never going to increase. We need the field of great cars to increase. This does it.

Just pop the soundtrack of a V8 in the stereo if you miss having an engine noise ;-)

It's all starting to make a great deal of sense now! I'd been wondering why no media ANYWHERE seemed overly critical of a car that's clearly quite flawed in it's design. I'm sure it's a great car, but lets be brutally honest, had it been a Tesla, we would have heard people picking away at it over all kinds of design choices! From the fake "cab forward" design, to the outright copying of some of Mazda and Hyundai's body line work, through to the lame name and lack of a rear window wiper to wipe away the mud from all that "offroading", the car clearly is less than perfect, but clearly JLRA have deep pockets and are quite happy to spend big on "bribing/exchanging favours for favourable publicity" with the media. It's unfortunate as I'd always been under the impression that FullyCharged was a somewhat "independent" show funded by viewers through the likes of Patreon. Instead it now seems to be a show that will obviously rather overly aware that it can't bite the hand that feeds it, in this case JLRA! It's funny, normally my comments get responses, without fail! But the comments regarding the i-Pace get nada, and clearly being somewhat critical of a car that's quite over hyped seems to be shut down quite quickly by the JLRA media gurus! Seems to me, that the oligarchs that for decades did all they could to stop the electric movement, are now employing the same techniques as the tobacco industry did. On the one hand, they do all they can to shoot down Tesla/the electric car movement, on the other hand, they produce an i-Pace and try and steal all the glory! So, it's great to see another electric car, the more the merrier! Lets just not forget that this car owes a lot to Tesla (and even Mazda for the design lines!). And lets try and keep a FullyCharged that's independent, that doesn't take "freebies" off big companies or only do a drive when there's a company rep/north Korean "tour guide" sitting beside you keeping watch over what's said!!! I'd like to see a "raw" review. Here's our car, yours for the weekend, do as you please!!! That should be the mantra manufacturers follow if they want anyone to take their car "reviews" half seriously!

Great set of Wheels!!! I'm loving that sound as well. I'm sold. Just need the quick charging network and I'm there. #ThatSound #MeetGeorgeJetson

The sound of the future. Like it!

As much as I like other electric cars.. Tesla's Supercharger's is what makes them years ahead of everyone. Chademo and the SAE Combos are both capped at 50kwatts right now... That's fast of course but considering there's 120kwatr Supercharger's out there and Elon Musk is implying a new one is coming this year that's substantially faster... It just gives them a huge advantage that some people might overlook.

That unnecessary noise thing is silly. Sounds like a Melbourne tram.

And it began with the S and the Ipace. Then they really took off! Well done Jaguar. Well done Reverend Wibbley.

Let’s not get carried away with the range. I’ve had mine for almost a year and on a full charge the range reads circa 220 miles. I only ever plan to get 180. 300 miles is nonsense. That said, it’s still great fun to drive.

I love Tesla, because they've forced bloated, lethargic, reluctant and well established motor companies to at least consider evolving. However, I think Jaguar have given Tesla a few things to think about here. The refinement on the I-Pace is next level.

Why don't you criticize, that it can only charge AC with 7kW? That is a NOGO.

Great review

That is a damn fine looking car, Jaguar really hit it out of the park on this one. It'll be great to have a home grown EV, particularly one at this level. Reliability will be the interesting point, British cars are not exactly world renowned for build quality - I know they've drastically improved over the past decade so we'll see. Fingers crossed, just a shame they couldn't get the price down to 3 series territory.

Can you call it a Jaguar if it doesn’t leak OIL ?

Interior is so much nicer and refined than a Tesla. Exterior leaves a bit to be desired. 4wd is very nice feature even if 95% of drivers will never use it. 300 mile range is the sweet spot. Can see a lot of Tesla reservations getting canceled after testing the I-Pace

I drove one of these about a month ago, very impressive. Drove it back-to-back with the F-pace, which is slightly better handling but oddly not as good off-road... But the price ($80k with the options you need - e.g. blindspot detection & heated seats...) and the lack of a decent, clear, easy to use charger network (and I'm in California which is awesome for this sort of stuff) makes this a 'wait & see'.

Amazing video. Wish to see more of the off road video