Automakers like telling us that the easiest way to save lots of the world is by switching to an EV. In America, which means scrapping your getting old pickup in favor of a ten,000-pound electrical truck. But it surely’s not simply America that thinks this, and now a startup in Scotland has clambered aboard the EV pickup hype practice.

Munro is an organization that we’ve talked about earlier than, because it builds a reasonably cool electrical SUV that appears prefer it’s picked up the off-roading batton proper the place the unique Land Rover Defender left it.

Now, after launching its Defender-inspired EV on the tail finish of 2022, the corporate is including a brand new body-style to its vary with a twin-cab pickup EV. Referred to as the MK­­­_1 Decide-Up, the brand new mannequin will begin at £49,995 (about $62,000) and goes on sale later this yr.

For a cool sixty grand, the pickup comes with the identical 375 horseenergy motor because the SUV, giving the brand new mannequin as much as 516ft-lb of torque, and capability to hold as much as 2,300 kilos of stuff. Towing capability is 7,716 kilos.

To energy all this efficiency, the MK­­­_1 Decide-Up comes with an 82.4kWh battery pack, which at full cost offers you sufficient juice to cowl greater than 190 miles or function off-road for as much as 16 hours, the corporate says.

When the time involves prime up the tank, the pickup will take 36 minutes to cost from 15 % as much as 80 % through a 100kW DC charger.

If all that feels like an thrilling proposition, be part of the queue as Munro has opened the order books for the brand new truck. In truth, the startup says it’s already acquired orders for 200 vans, which it says is sufficient to fill one and a half years of manufacturing.

In an announcement, Munro CEO and co-founder Russell Peterson stated: “Priced from £49,995 Ex VAT with deliveries commencing later this yr, now we have already secured greater than 200 orders for the MK_1 Decide-Up, three of which have come from FTSE 100 corporations and ten from FTSE 250 corporations.

“With a full two-year order e book for each the MK_1 Decide-Up and the MK_1 Truck, Munro is having to expedite its seek for bigger premises to fulfill buyer demand.”

Initially, Munro started producing in small portions this yr, nevertheless it has plans to maneuver its manufacturing to a brand new facility close to the Scottish metropolis of Glasgow in 2024. When that occurs, the agency hopes to ramp up its manufacturing volumes.