Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupe, Performance, Electric, MISC
You may think of Morgan as a stodgy old automaker. And in many ways its is, still making as it does some of its cars on a wooden frame and recently going back to its roots with a delicious trike that looks like it came straight out a WW2 air field. But Morgan is also the company that makes the AeroMax and EvaGT. And now it’s taking one step further into the future (or present) of the automotive industry with a new electric prototype.
Developed in conjunction with a number of partners, the Morgan Aero Supersport +E is the first of two new engineering prototypes the company is building, and will be unveiled in a couple weeks in Rockingham, England, at the Low Carbon Vehicle expo.
The prototype ditches the 4.8-liter BMW V8 in favor of a 94-horsepower electric drive system, uniquely operating through a manual transmission. The motor and battery are provided by Zytek – which already supplies a number of automakers as well as racing applications like Formula One’s KERS and the first hybrid at Le Mans – mounted onto an aluminum subframe. There’s plenty more technical details to delve into in the press release after the jump, so check it out.
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Morgan and friends converting Aero Supersport into all-electric prototype originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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