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Originally Posted by nick w
Originally Posted by Aeroman
[quote=CooperMan]
I think the EV drive train partner/developer went belly up

The Yellow EV was a Morgan skunk-works project Jon in about 2013/14 (from memory!) just to show what was possible and unusually, it did have a normal Plus 8 gearbox. You are right about the subsequent partner who was developing an EV version of the M3W going belly-up and they were also developing a carbon fibre M3W body too.

There was no “enormous grant” for the Yellow EV which was never destined to be a production model…

MMC were awarded a 6 million pound grant in 2016 the yellow one was part of that project wasn't it part of the application?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...-auto-sector-receives-75-million-funding

I was wrong on the date as this article was published in 2012 when the car was exhibited at Geneva https://newatlas.com/something-old-something-new-the-morgan-plus-e/21736/ as I said a project put together in the skunk works featuring some chassis alteration by Radshape, an electric motor and controls from Zytek, a complete body etc from MMC = Morgan Plus 8 EV.

It’s difficult to see how a 2016 grant financed a car built in 2012! 😉

Brian

1970 Morgan Plus 8 - Moss Box (Indigo Blue)
2014 Morgan SP1 (Rocket Red)
2015 Morgan Plus 8 (Rocket Blue)