Automakers like to tell us that the best way to save the world is switch to EV. In America, that means getting rid of your old pickup truck donate a 10,000 pound electric truck. But it’s not just the US that thinks so, and now a Scottish startup has boarded the EV pickup hype train.
Munro is a company we talked about beforewhen it built a pretty cool electric SUV, it looked like it picked up the off-road baton right where the original Land Rover Defender left it.
Currently, after the launch of the Defender inspired EV By the end of 2022, the company will add a new body style to its lineup with a two-cabin EV pickup. Called the Pick-Up MK_1, the new model will start at £49,995 (about $62,000) and will go on sale later this year.
For a cool sixty thousand, the pickup truck comes with the same 375 horsepower SUV-like engine, giving the new model up to 516ft-lb of torqueAnd capable of carrying up to 2,300 pounds of furniture. townership capacity is £7,716.
To power all this performance, the Pick-Up MK_1 comes with an 82.4 kWh battery pack that, when fully charged, will provide you with enough juice to go 190+ miles or go off-road for maximum 4 p.m., the company said.
When it’s time to refill the tank, the pickup will take 36 minutes to charge from 15% to 80% through 100kW . DC charger.
If all of that sounds like an interesting proposition, join the queue as Munro has opened the order book for the new truck. In fact, the startup says it has already received orders for 200 trucks. enough to fill a year and a half of production.
In a statement, Munro CEO and co-founder Russell Peterson said: “From £49,995 Ex VAT with deliveries starting later this year, we have received over 200 orders for Pick-Up MK_1, three of which came from the FTSE 100 companies and ten from the FTSE 250 companies.
“With a full two-year order book for both the MK_1 Pickup and the MK_1 Truck, Munro is accelerating the search for a larger facility to meet customer demand.”
Initially, Munro started production in small quantities this year, but it plans to move production to a new facility near the Scottish city of Glasgow in 2024. When that happens, the company hopes to increase production.
