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# Ineos could lean on Chinese giant for help with its next 4×4
- URL: https://torquecafe.com/ineos-could-lean-on-chinese-giant-for-help-with-its-next-4x4/
- Published: 2025-06-13T01:00:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-04T11:53:44.000Z
- Description: Multinational carmaker Ineos could add another branch to its already expansive tree, with reports suggesting a tie-up with Chery is in the works.
- Author: Jordan Mulach
- Tags: News, 4x4 & Adventure

British-based Ineos - which builds its Grenadier 4×4 in France with a powertrain from BMW in Germany - is reportedly discussing with Chinese giant Chery to breathe life back into its Fusilier electric and range-extender off-roader project, which stalled last year.

[*Autocar*](https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/ineos-considers-chery-tie-boost-fusilier-development?ref=torquecafe.com) reports Chery’s iCar (or iCaur) brand, which sits as its more adventure-focused offering, could give its electric and range-extender vehicle platform to Ineos to underpin the Fusilier, a departure from the firm’s original plans to develop it in-house.

Having revealed the Fusilier concept in February last year with an aim for it to go on sale as a smaller sibling to the Grenadier by 2027, Ineos announced in July that it was delayed indefinitely, citing “reluctant consumer uptake of EVs, and industry uncertainty around tariffs, timings and taxation”.

![](https://torquecafe.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ineos-fusilier-1.jpg)

Ineos Fusilier

Ineos CEO Lynn Calder, speaking to *Top Gear* last month, said that with Europe’s impending 2025 ban of new petrol and diesel vehicles, the Fusilier range-extender wouldn’t be economically justifiable.

“That’s just been paused, not cancelled,” Calder told [*Top Gear*](https://www.topgear.com/car-news/business/ineos-we-should-be-going-lower-emission-vehicles-not-zero-emission?ref=torquecafe.com) of the Fusilier.

“\[But\] if we come out with our Fusilier in 2027 or 2028, we’ve got a lifecycle of selling in Europe and the UK for six or seven years maximum, and that’s not an economic business case.”

![](https://torquecafe.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ineos-fusilier-2.jpg)

Ineos Fusilier

Ineos may not have to bear the brunt of the grim economic outlook though, as partnering with another brand such as Chery’s iCar would take a significant amount less money than developing an all-new vehicle in-house.

According to *Autocar’s* report, Ineos will reportedly use the iCar V27 as the base of its Fusilier. The all-wheel drive range-extender V27 is powered by dual electric motors capable of producing up to 335kW, fed by a 22kWh or 33kWh which is charged by a turbocharged 1.5-litre petrol engine.

iCar also has a smaller SUV in the V23, available as an EV with single- and dual-motor powertrains, but only maximum outputs of 155kW and 292Nm in the case of the latter.

![](https://torquecafe.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/chery_icar_v27-1.jpg)

iCar V27

Should the Fusilier make it to production, it would represent a departure from Ineos Grenadier, which relies on turbocharged BMW petrol and diesel engines. Some variants of the Grenadier are classed as commercial vehicles in the UK and Europe in a bid to meet less stringent emissions requirements.

Chery is also no stranger to working with British brands, currently producing Jaguar (XEL, XFL and E-Pace) and Land Rover (Range Rover Evoque and Discovery Sport) models in China, though these are due to wrap up within the next four to 18 months.

[As reported last month](https://torquecafe.com/freelander-to-return-as-a-chinese-ev-brand/), Chery and Jaguar Land Rover will use its current and future electrified vehicle platforms to revive the Freelander brand, debuting in China before making its way overseas.