Two truly British electric car concepts are set to make an appearance in 2012, as hand-built luxury car brand Morgan Motor Company teams up with a consortium of other British brands to produce the Morgan +E programme.
This new programme will see the proven Aero Supersport’s aluminium chassis combined with Zytek’s high-power density electric powertrain. Usually this will be teamed with a manual-rather than automatic-gearbox, a near first for an electric vehicle.
Worcestershire-based firm will ditch the 4.8 litre BMW V8 engine usually used in its Aero SuperSports model in favour of an electric powertrain as part of the collaborative research and development project being part-funded by a £100,000 grant from the Niche Vehicle Network CR&D Programme.
This grant fund, managed by CENEX, is designed to support the development and application of new, low carbon technology within the niche vehicle sector.
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