The challenge

Morris Commercial are set to revive the historic brand with all electric vehicles. Its first model, the Morris JE, is a 2.5-ton lightweight commercial vehicle including a van, minibus and pickup derivatives. The vehicle is designed to have a 1-ton payload and 200 miles of range. This surpasses all current equivalent electric light commercial vehicles on the market in both payload and range. To achieve this, it needs to have a robust and ultralightweight body structure to offset the weight of the heavy batteries. The vehicle also needs to be affordable. Morris’s own feasibility studies backed by extensive external studies and proof of concept research projects completed by Prodrive indicate that using Recycled Carbon Fibre as developed by ELG will be able to achieve the combined result of an ultralightweight body structure at a commercially viable cost.