JLR Signs Deal to use Fortescue’s Battery Intelligence Software in its EVs

JLR has signed a multi-year deal to use Fortescue’s battery intelligence software, Elysia, in its next-generation electric vehicles (EVs). The software will help enhance JLR’s vehicles with improved battery longevity, safety, and performance.

Starting with the new Range Rover Electric, Fortescue’s software will monitor all future JLR EVs.

This will help to help JLR optimise battery performance and safety for clients.

Fortescue’s software uses digital twins and artificial intelligence to identify and solve battery issues.

This strategic collaboration allows JLR to gain detailed insights into battery conditions, offering specific recommendations to improve performance through software updates.

JLR plans to electrify all its brands by 2030 and achieve carbon net zero by 2039.

Thomas Mueller, Executive Director, Product Engineering at JLR, says: “Fortescue's technology will provide JLR with even greater access to data analytics, integral as we electrify our entire vehicle portfolio by 2030. As the industry transitions towards electrification, collaborations such as these are paramount, as we look to further enhance the safety, performance and lifetime of our batteries.”

Mark Hutchinson, Fortescue CEO, adds: “This collaboration showcases the very best of cutting-edge innovation and engineering. Through Fortescue’s breakthrough battery intelligence software, JLR will benefit from a new level of access to battery data and a revolutionary way to monitor its products in the real world, ensuring that every product lives up to the brand’s exceptionally high standards. The lessons and innovations we have both learned from motorsport are now being applied to the management of battery systems on our roads, unlocking a leading future of EV performance for JLR’s customers.”

Fortescue is an integrated green technology, energy and metals company.