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When the Jaguar i-Pace production car arrives in 2018, it will be the first ever all-electric Jag. It will be hugely fast, genuinely spacious, potentially capable of putting 300 miles under its tyres between every charge, and a car eminently of the moment. And it will look very much like this, the original concept car, first shown at the LA auto show at the end of 2016, and now given a fresh lick of day-glo paint for its European debut at the 2017 Geneva show. On a closed stretch of London’s Olympic Park, we were the first magazine to drive the i-Pace on a real road. If this concept is the foreword to Jaguar’s electric production car future, it’s off to a compelling start. Approaching the concept, partially obscured by a life-support crew of technicians poring over it, the first thing you notice is the paint (more on which in a moment), then the wheels – they are as shiny as they are huge, a gigantic 23 inches in diameter. Top-trim production cars will get 22s, and with taller sidewalls than the concept’s bespoke Pirellis, the overall rolling diameter won’t be far off that of the show car, Jaguar design chief Ian Callum tells us. They’ll be narrower, however, for decreased rolling resistance – crucial in the range-critical EV market.➽ If you want your video to be published on our channel, please feel free to send us an email on: [email protected] UP TO DATE & CONNECT WITH US AT:►https://www.facebook.com/CarsOfficial...►https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoL8...