Munro MK_1 Is Scotland’s Answer To The Electric Pickup

I’m loving angles instead.

Automakers like telling us that the best way to save the world is by switching to an EV. In America, that means scrapping your aging 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 clambered aboard the EV pickup hype train.

Munro is a company that we’ve talked about before, as it builds a pretty cool electric SUV that looks like it’s picked up the off-roading batton right where the original Land Rover Defender left it.

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Now, after launching its Defender-inspired EV at the tail end of 2022, the company is adding a new body-style to its range with a twin-cab pickup EV. Called the MK­­­_1 Pick-Up, the new model will start at £49,995 (about $62,000) and goes on sale later this year.

Same same, but different.

For a cool sixty grand, the pickup comes with the same 375 horsepower motor as the SUV, giving the new model up to 516ft-lb of torque, and capacity to carry up to 2,300 pounds of stuff. Towing capacity is 7,716 pounds.

To power all this performance, the MK­­­_1 Pick-Up comes with an 82.4kWh battery pack, which at full charge will give you enough juice to cover more than 190 miles or operate off-road for up to 16 hours, the company says.