RE: Geneva 2012: Morgan Plus E and Plus 8

[V8 FOU]

Love it. Great colour and a great idea. A yellow "green" car!! Only thing is, aren't all the city charge point parking spaces a bit small fot this? Would just love to have this plugged in amongst all the smug Toyota Primuses and other boring electric / hybrid things.

[matrignano]

dvs_dave said:

And the 5 grand deposits they were taking???

They will reimburse them in full, on request.
Apparently they are rethinking/improving some key manufacturing processes so the car has been delayed to at least March (Geneva show) 2014, IIRC.
Shame though, as I was looking forward to taking deliver later this year!

[DJRC]

dvs_dave said:

DJRC said:

tommy vercetti said:

This might be a stupd question, but what happened to the Morgan Eva GT?

Dont ask

And the 5 grand deposits they were taking???

Officially "delayed by 12 months".
Unofficially...

[soad]

V8 FOU said:

Love it. Great colour and a great idea. A yellow "green" car!!

[DaveyBoyDave]

Ryvita said:

Hmm. Would I be right in thinking that this car would be "unstallable"? I'm basing this on the half-remembered belief that electric motors can generate ~100% torque from zero revs, correct? Or is that not right?

I'm trying to imagine what the experience would be of lifting the clutch up on such a torquey motor. Would you just immediately slip the rear wheels ever time you tried to pull away? (Or alternatively completely destroy the clutch in short order...) Does it still have a flywheel to generate some inertia to counteract this?

Either way I'm intrigued.

Why would you need to use the clutch to pull away?

Electric motors generally do produce maximum torque at zero revs. For this reason, gearboxes aren't generally necessary.

Interesting idea though. I guess it would be like a bike-engined car - very high revving, very low inertia - but with torque low down.

[bobberz]

Monochromatic yellow does not suit a Morgan at all. All that torque in a little Morgan does sound like fun; would love to show up to a British car show in that, to see the looks on the faces of the tweed-clad Morgan traditionalists!

Am I the only one amused by the name "Neil Cheeseman"? Could explain the colour choice...

[LuS1fer]

Yellow really suits the Morgan - like dragging an OAP into the 2ist Century.