Living with range anxiety: Two weeks with the Jaguar I-Pace

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The Jaguar I-Pace is a brilliant car. The first battery electric vehicle from Jaguar-Land Rover, the I-Pace starts at about $70,000 and goes up from there.

My colleague, Ars Automotive Editor Jonathan Gitlin, drove the I-Pace when it launched and came away raving about it—and for good reason. Not only did it win the World Green Car award, but it also won World Car of the Year.

Jonathan covered the I-Pace in great detail, so I won’t spend much time talking about the driving experience. Suffice it to say, the I-Pace is blast to drive. It accelerates briskly, it’s incredibly comfortable, sight lines are good, handling is impeccable, it’s roomy for its size, it has some modest off-road skills, and Jaguar-Land Rover’s infotainment system, Touch Duo Pro, is well-thought-out, even if slightly laggy at times. Beyond that, JLR fixed one of the major complaints Jonathan had about the I-Pace as it entered production: the regenerative-braking settings are no longer buried under layers of menus.