Morgan marketing director Toby Blythe insisted that an electric Super 3 “doesn’t feature in our two, three or four-year plan” but admitted that demand for an EV could develop quickly and, if it did, the company’s forward planning could change.
On price, both Blythe and Hole were cagey, although the news on this electrified model isn’t as bad as some. Hole said getting “an accurate handle” on a bill of materials is difficult, but he still believed an electric Super 3 could be sold for a price “just north of Super 3”.
For many a modern-minded Morgan enthusiast, that’s good news indeed.
Q&A: Matt Hole, chief technical officer, Morgan Motor Company
How similar is the XP-1 to the electric three-wheeler you will eventually put into production?
“Well, it won’t be too different. We’re still experimenting with a lot of components, and we will do for some time, but we adopted a 12-month timetable to complete the car’s exploratory phase, and we’ve done that. We simply don’t have the budget to get it wrong.”
Your aero investigations have made big improvements to the original car. Will they go into the petrol model?
“Some could. We tried seven different iterations that led to XP-1’s aerodynamics. We’re pretty pleased with what we’ve done.”
