The carmaker has paid $15m for a minority stake in CloudCar, and plans to use the company's automotive cloud services platform in its forthcoming electric model.

Automotive manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has invested $15m in CloudCar, the US-based developer of a cloud services platform for use in vehicles.

CloudCar has built a machine learning-equipped platform that can be used by carmakers to make the information and entertainment systems in their vehicles more intuitive, by adding features like voice activation.

The technology is set to be first used in Jaguar Land Rover’s forthcoming I-Pace model, the company’s first electric vehicle.

Hanno Kirner, Jaguar Land Rover’s executive director…