This story originally published on August 23, 2018.

Monterey, California (CNN Business) Jaguar made headlines last spring when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drove away from their royal wedding in its all-electric Jaguar E-Type. Now you'll be able to buy your own.

Jaguar has announced it will make a series of all-electric Jaguar E-Type sports cars.

This isn't an all-new E-type. It's the same classic sports car from the 1960s with its long hood, curved roof and chrome bumpers, but with its engine and transmission removed and replaced by a battery pack and an electric motor.

Customers who already own classic E-types will be able to pay to have their car converted to electric drive -- the original engine and transmission will be preserved so that they can be put back in, if that's ever wanted -- or customers can pay Jaguar to acquire an E-type for conversion.

Most of the classic Jaguar E-type is unchanged in the electric makeover.

Much of the electric drive technology on the car is the same as that used in the Jaguar I-Pace electric SUV . The battery pack fits nicely under the hood, where the E-Type's 6-cylinder engine is usually housed. The electric motor fits in the transmission tunnel between the seats.

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