Jaguar I-Pace Goes Stealth on the the Monaco Grand Prix Circuit

Jaguar’s first foray into the electric SUV segment, the I-Pace, has already caused enough excitement for the manufacturer to be sure it will be a hit. Still, the car does need promoting, having to battle other equally exciting EVs like the Model X or the upcoming EQC.

And what better way to promote the I-Pace than it taking out for a spin on the Grand Prix circuit in Monaco? When people are sleeping on hammocks on the waterfront, or welding stuff (?) in a tunnel, in the middle of the night.

Although most definitely the entire 30-second clip you can see below is staged, it does depict a reality. If one wanted it, one could sneak in, out and through various areas while driving an EV.

Sure, the speeds at which the I-Pace is being driven on the circuit would most definitely create more decibels than Jaguar would want us to believe, but the hiding-behind-a-street-cleaning-truck stunt is as real as they get.

The danger posed by EVs to smartphone-addict pedestrians is so great that the U.S. Department of Transportation completed in February the set of rules that will govern noise-making in electric vehicles.

Since such devices may prevent some 2,400 injuries by the end of the decade and save some $320 million in medical costs, by 2020 50 percent off all silent electric vehicles will have to be fitted with sound making technologies.

As for the I-Pace, for now, it will sell as advertised. In the U.S., the model is priced at $69,500, a sum that is only $1,700 higher than the one asked by Elon Musk for his X.