It seems Mini Moke has been resurrected and gone all-electric. Sounds like it costs just about the same as an SE with a range of 89 miles, but it looks fun.
It’s cool, but I’m saddened that it needs tall seats and rollover protection. I get why, but it definitely loses some charm with the extra safety features.
Worse than the range and the roll-over protection is the e-Moke's top speed of 25 mph. My rusty old 1968 Morris Mini Moke could hit 70 mph and it felt like 90! Once, when I was push-starting it (Lucas electrics, remember) down the driveway next to my house, someone went to the front door and warned my housemate that someone was stealing his golf cart.
I like your license plate. Too bad you didn’t keep your Moke. That would make an interesting BEV conversion. Perhaps a battery from a Prius along with a P85 motor. Range would only be 10 miles, but what an exciting 10 miles! Sent from my iPhone using Inside EVs
The TOYATO license plate came from my rusty old (so old, it was RWD) Toyota Corolla. The plate was useful when dyslexic parking enforcement officers would write parking tickets for "TOYOTA," which I simply threw away. The next year I switched to MOKE as my vanity plate and the trick didn't work anymore.
I think you're referring to the Moke America, which has a top speed of 25 mph and only 120 V charging. That doesn't look as authentic as the Moke International version, which is what the article is about.
Thank you. I didn't realize there were TWO electric Mokes. I agree the 50-mph Moke International does look more authentic (though not totally authentic) than the 25-mph Moke America. Will Porsche's EV Boxster the first drop-top EV sold in North America? I assume it, too, will have a roll-bar to protect occupants from being crushed by the battery. There was the tiniest hint that MINI was going to make an EV convertible in Oxford, but only one, unsubstantiated hint.
Technically the smart Cialis ED cabrio was the first drop-top EV in North America, succeeded by the smart EQ cabrio.
Based on this article on upcoming models, the MINI convertible EV is coming in 2025. And doesn't the Tesla Roadster count as the first?
Yes. I usually complain that there's no currently available EV convertible. I knew about the Tesla (Lotus) Roadster, but not about the Smart ED convertible @SameGuy presented.
Yes I guess the Tesla Lotus sleds were first, but they weren’t exactly a mass-produced car like the 2013+ smart ED.
My friend owned a Mini Moke back then and when he had to do a parallel parking, especially in a tight spot, he just stick the front end in, step out and lift the back end by muscle power to complete the park.
I used to do that, too! I bet everyone with a real Mini Moke does that, but it would be a lot harder with a Moke packing a big battery. Just a few minutes ago I pulled up behind this MINI, which has a similar license plate to my old Moke's TOYATO: I apologize for posting a second photo of a MINI with an exhaust pipe on this forum.
