---
title: "2028 Range Rover Velar EV Spied With Fast Roofline"
date: "2025-08-20"
modified: "2026-02-27"
authors:
  - name: "Andrew P. Collins"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/andrew-p-collins"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/2026-range-rover-velar-ev-spy-shots"
categories:
  - "Land Rover News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Spy Photos"
tags:
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "luxury"
  - "Range Rover"
  - "suv/crossover"
  - "Velar"
---

# 2028 Range Rover Velar EV Spied With Fast Roofline

![2028 Range Rover Velar EV spy shots](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SB38270-e1772200236238.jpg>)
*\<em\>Stefan Baldauf/SB-Medien\</em\>*

The [Range Rover](<https://www.thedrive.com/category/land-rover-range-rover>) Velar embraces the idea of a [Land Rover](<https://www.thedrive.com/category/land-rover-news>) you keep clean, with a relatively low ride height and sleek lines (though it can [still play in the dirt](<https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/2024-range-rover-velar-first-drive-review-specs-price-options-impressions>)). A fully electric variant is in the pipeline, and our spies in Europe caught a prototype whipping around snow-covered roads.

While the current Velar kind of looks like a regular Range Rover, just squished and swept back a bit, this prototype seems to be a little more visually front-heavy. The hood looks a bit shorter, and the area behind the second-row windows has some angular haunches to it.

On the back, there are very pronounced spoilers above the rear window, split in the middle, plus a smaller spoiler below the window, kind of like a [Cayenne Coupe](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/27092/2020-porsche-cayenne-coupe-a-sportier-sexier-looking-suv-for-the-family-types>). Heavily pronounced chunks along the sides of the roof, and big protrusions where the cargo area windows would normally be, caught my attention too.

![2028 Range Rover Velar EV spy shots](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SB38315.jpg>)

![2028 Range Rover Velar EV spy shots](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SB38303.jpg>)

![2028 Range Rover Velar EV spy shots](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SB38300.jpg>)

![2028 Range Rover Velar EV spy shots](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SB38298.jpg>)

![2028 Range Rover Velar EV spy shots](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SB38289.jpg>)

![2028 Range Rover Velar EV spy shots](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SB38286.jpg>)

![2028 Range Rover Velar EV spy shots](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SB38274.jpg>)

The rear end of these prototypes continues to be the most obscured part of the design with the camouflage doing its job. It's hard to tell exactly how fast the roofline is, but clearly the new Velar will not have a traditional SUV shape, rather will be designed for efficiency with the air flowing around it.

- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel1.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel13.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel12.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel11.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel10.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel9.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel8.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel7.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel6.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel5.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel4.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel3.jpg>)
- ![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vel2.jpg>)

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We've seen what the hatch opening looks like—a big clamshell that should provide a lot of access to the back.

The Range Rover Velar EV is expected to debut later this year and arrive close to the end of next year as 2028 model year in the U.S. market.

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## Author
As Executive Editor, Andrew touches everything on the site from daily news coverage to feature stories, sponsored content, product reviews, road testing vehicles, ecommerce, and more. He's held pretty much every role there is to have at an automotive news site and has been with The Drive's publisher Recurrent since 2020. Andrew's a lifetime gearhead and longtime writer with a particularly strong penchant for road trips, off-road adventures, and archaic vehicles. His passions outside of the automotive world include skiing, obsolete video games, and his dog Bramble who occationally helps review cars.

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