Following the launch of a rugged electrical 4×4 truck late final 12 months, Scottish startup Munro Automobiles has now introduced its second mannequin – an “ultra-capable, ultra-utilitarian” boxy pickup. And the corporate already has greater than 200 confirmed orders.
“We launched Munro to fill the numerous hole available in the market for an electric-powered, four-wheel-drive, utilitarian workhorse,” stated firm co-founder and CEO, Russell Peterson. “Our autos are designed and engineered with out compromise from clear sheet ideas unimpeded by any current structure. The result’s a rugged development created for many years of service delivering final, go-anywhere, off-road capacity.”
The Mark 1 Choose-Up is just about the identical because the Mark 1 Truck introduced final 12 months, is likewise being constructed for no less than 50 years of service, and can be being made out there in Utility, Vary and Efficiency variants.
The mannequin that made its debut on the Absolutely Charged Reside North present over the weekend was the Efficiency taste in an attention-grabbing vibrant yellow end, which translated to a 280-kW (375-hp) motor for 700 Nm (516 lb.ft) of torque, a full-time 4×4 mechanical drivetrain for all-terrain, all-weather driving, a dash to 96.5 km/h (60 mph) in 4.9 seconds, and an 82.4-kWh battery reckoned good for greater than 300 km (190 miles) per cost.
Scotland’s solely volume-production automobile firm says that off-roaders might motor alongside for as much as 16 hours earlier than needing a top-up, and {that a} 100-kW DC charger will take the battery from a low of 15% as much as 80% capability in simply 36 minutes.
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The straightforward-load rear mattress has been designed to take a 1,050-kg (2,315-lb) Euro Pallet payload – somewhat greater than the Truck – and the Efficiency model has a most braked towing capability of three,500 kg (7,716 lb).
Munro stories that it has already obtained greater than 200 orders for the Choose-Up, which has stuffed up the corporate’s car order e book for each the Truck and the Choose-Up for the following two years, and in addition implies that the seek for bigger manufacturing amenities in Scotland “to fulfill buyer demand” has been stepped up a gear.
Pricing for the Mark 1 Choose-Up begin from £49,995 (somewhat over US$62k), not together with taxes, and the primary deliveries to prospects are anticipated to happen later this 12 months.
Supply: Munro