Morgan is best known for building sports cars out of wood, using tools from the 1950s. But it also has an eye on the future, and has today revealed the prototype for its first electric car. Called the XP-1, it looks similar to the company’s Super 3 but replaces the engine with a battery and motor, and will act as a testbed for future plug-in Morgan cars.
This isn’t the first time Morgan has experimented with electricity. The company showed off a concept called the EV3 back in 2016, based on the then-current 3 Wheeler and with the aim of delivering a production version in 2018. The first 19 examples were dubbed the 1909 Edition (a nod to Morgan’s year of birth) and were due to be sold for £52,500 apiece at the Selfridges department store. Supply issues stopped the EV3 in its tracks, however, and the production car never arrived.
