See Inside Range Rover's Strange New Velar EV Before You're Supposed To

A little over a month ago, the Autoblog spy photographers sent us images of a nearly production-ready Range Rover Velar before it transforms into an EV for the 2027 model year, revealing a very unusual silhouette. Now, they've given us a sneak peek inside the quirky car, way ahead of its expected reveal in the summer, and what the pictures reveal is a cabin unlike any Range Rover we've seen before. This will be the first JLR vehicle on the new Electric Modular Architecture 800-volt platform, and the user interface will reflect that novelty with a screen layout that Volvo could be proud of. Let's take a closer look.

2027 Range Rover Velar Has Multiple Screens, But Potentially in a Good Way

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Like the Volvo EX30 that will soon leave the U.S. market, the new Range Rover Velar EV diverges from the European automaker trend of blending infotainment and driver information displays in a single panel, instead putting a short display on the dash behind the steering wheel and a large touchscreen in the center. This should be good for visibility and minimizing driver distraction. It also allows for air conditioning vents to span the width of the cabin, increasing the occupants' impression of interior space. Unfortunately, we see that the climate control buttons are icons on the touchscreen, which will make adjusting temperatures and fan speeds on the move a little tricky. Hopefully, the covered center console at least hides a physical volume knob.

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Moving to the steering wheel, a gloss black strip between the stalks likely houses a driver attention monitor, while the wheel itself appears to be a two-spoke design that the engineers have crudely disguised as a three-spoke. Happily, the buttons on this seem not to be of the haptic feedback variety and should be easy enough to use without averting your gaze from the road ahead. Finally, the roof panel houses the hazard indicator button.

2027 Range Rover Velar EV Arrives Soon

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The new Range Rover Velar will be all-electric to begin with, but a plug-in hybrid powertrain is expected to follow later. Both will have ports on each side of the vehicle, with the PHEV having one for gas and one for electricity, and the EV having two for recharging the battery. Why? So that it's easy to hook the luxury crossover up to a charger regardless of how you park and where the charger is placed. The sloping roofline will no doubt impair rear occupant space and cargo capacity, but we expect a large frunk to at least make up for the latter. Other than that, the Velar will help advance the Range Rover design language with a look that the traditional Range Rover and Range Rover Sport will be influenced by, and since JLR's engineers let our spy photographers get this close, they must be almost ready to reveal what the British automaker has been working on very soon. Stay tuned.