Munro MK_1 is Scotland’s answer to the electric pick-up

Automakers like to tell us that the best way to save the world is to pass switch to an EV. In America, that means scrapping your obsolete pickup in favor of a 10,000-pound electric truck. But it’s not just America that thinks this, and now a startup in Scotland has climbed aboard the EV pickup hype train.

Munro is a company we talked about earlierwhile building a pretty cool electric SUV that looks like it’s picked up the off-road baton right where the original Land Rover Defender left it.

Now, after the launch of its Defender-inspired EV at the end of 2022, the company will add a new body style to its range with a double cab electric pickup. Dubbed the MK_1 Pick-Up, the new model will start at £49,995 (around $62,000) and go on sale later this year.

For a cool sixty grand, the pickup comes with the same 375 horsecurrent engine as the SUV, give the new model up to 516 ft-lb of torqueAnd capacity to carry up to 2,300 pounds of gear. Tassets owed 7,716 lbs.

To power all this performance, the MK_1 Pick-Up comes with an 82.4 kWh battery pack, which gives you enough power on a full charge to cover over 300 kilometers or drive off-road for up to 16 hours , the company said.

When it’s time to top up the tank, it takes 36 minutes to charge the pickup from 15 percent to 80 percent via a 100kW DC charger.

If all that sounds like an exciting proposition, get in line because Munro has opened order books for the new truck. In fact, the startup says it has already received orders for 200 trucks, which it says enough to fill a year and a half of production.

In a statement, Munro CEO and co-founder Russell Peterson said: “Priced from £49,995 ex VAT with deliveries commencing later this year, we have already taken over 200 orders for the MK_1 Pick-Up, three of which are from FTSE 100 companies and ten of FTSE 250 companies.

“With a full two-year order book for both the MK_1 Pick-Up and MK_1 Truck, Munro must accelerate its search for larger premises to meet customer demand.”

Munro initially started production in small batches this year, but has plans to move production to a new facility near the Scottish city of Glasgow in 2024. If that happens, the company hopes to ramp up its production volumes.