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The Morgan XP-1 is an extremely eccentric English electric vehicle
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 6 December - 09:00
The UK's Morgan Motor Company is best known for making new cars that look like old cars. Not only that, but barring a false start with an electric take on the Three Wheeler, the EV3 , it's all gas, all the time. Perhaps that won't be the case forever, as it's revealed its latest development vehicle, XP-1: a Super 3 with an electric heart.
Where the production Super 3 has a 1.5 L Ford three-cylinder engine under the hood, XP-1 gets a 33 kWh battery pack hooked up to a 136 hp (100 kW) 251lb-ft (340 Nm) electric motor that sits in the transmission tunnel. It weighs 132 lbs (60 kg) more than the gas car and comes with a lot more torque.
A happy side effect of that weight is a real-world economy of about 4 miles/kWh (15.5 kWh/100 km), giving a non-homologated range of roughly 132 miles/212 km). Oh, and Morgan's thrown in fast charging—up to 50kW—so it can get itself a full charge in less than an hour.