Munro Mk1 pick-up is open-bed variant of 375bhp electric 4x4

Scottish EV start-up Munro has unveiled a pick-up variant of its Mk1 commercialized 4x4, giving dense industries a zero-emission alternate to combustion-engined pick-ups specified arsenic the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux.

Its capabilities broadly reflector those of the regular Mk1, with the pick-up capable to location a Euro-size pallet, transportation 1050kg and tow up to 3500kg successful Performance specification.

The range-topping variant features a azygous electrical centrifugal that sends 375bhp and 516lb ft done a two-speed transfer-case gearbox (with a low-range cogwheel and cardinal locking differential). This allows the pick-up to screen 0-60mph successful a claimed 4.9sec, faster than the Ford Ranger Raptor, which reaches 62mph successful 7.9sec.

As with the archetypal Mk1, Utility and Range variants are besides offered with a little almighty centrifugal producing 295bhp and 443lb ft. This allows the exemplary to scope 62mph from a standstill successful 7.6sec.

The 75.2kWh (usable capacity) artillery offered successful Range and Performance models tin beryllium recharged astatine up rates of up to 90kW, enabling 15-80% successful 36 minutes. This artillery yields a scope of 152-190 miles, depending connected the conditions, according to Munro.

Utility models are expected to person the aforesaid 56.3kWh artillery arsenic successful the regular Mk1, allowing 112-141 miles betwixt charges. The smaller artillery is constricted to a maximum recharge complaint of 70kW, but inactive manages 15-80% successful 36 minutes.

The steadfast is targeting its vehicles astatine commercialized fleets successful dense industries (for example, mining and construction) arsenic good arsenic agriculture and defence, to assistance with decarbonisation efforts.

The pick-up is priced from £49,995 (excluding VAT) and has already attracted much than 200 orders – a two-year bid publication – of which 3 travel from FTSE 100 companies and 10 from FTSE 250 companies.

Co-founder and CEO Russell Peterson said: “This represents a important planetary marketplace accidental and 1 which, with our fiscal partners, we are poised to afloat exploit arsenic we instrumentality the adjacent strategical measurement and determination towards the pre-production prototype stage.”

Munro volition physique 50 aboriginal examples of the Mk1 (both successful pick-up and accepted 4x4 forms) this year. The start-up’s roadmap targets 2500 units annually by 2027, which would make it the archetypal shaper successful Scotland to nutrient a important measurement of cars since Peugeot-Talbot near Linwood successful 1981.