Gordon Murray to follow V12 supercars with a pair of electric SUVs
Both SUVs will be built according to Murray’s iStream production method , whereby the battery forms an integral part of the vehicle shell and weight is kept to a minimum with a view to maximising efficiency and affordability.
Murray told Autocar recently: “It can’t be correct to have family cars routinely weighing 2.5 tonnes, yet everyone’s piling into the thing the way OEMs do. We think there’s a better way.” The most likely scenario is that the GMD-badged smaller SUV will be built in Windlesham and presented as an urban mobility solution for private customers or fleets – or, in van form, delivery services.Gordon Murray Design calls iStream “a fundamental rethink on the way cars are designed, developed and manufactured”, claiming that its implications for mass vehicle production are on a par with Henry Ford’s pioneering efforts in the early 20th century.
GMD claims an iStream production line can produce multiple variants on the same platform, requires 80% less investment than a traditional plant, produces vehicles with a 40%-smaller CO2 footprint and drastically reduces vehicle weight. A supermini designed to the iStream principle would supposedly weigh some 200kg less than a conventional equivalent.Designed by Murray for export to emerging markets, the “world’s first flat-pack truck” can be assembled in less than 12 hours by three people.Diminutive 34bhp urban EV serves as a showpiece for iStream production principle, tipping the scales at just 680kg.
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