Gordon Murray Group Has New Funds To Expand Its Urban EV Tech Part

Everyone is expanding its limited grounds over the last years and Gordon Murray firm is no exception with its intention to use a part of £300m investment to build more cars, design a new platform and develop EV tech. The perfect trio for GMG, right?

The Gordon Murray Group (GMG), announced a founding received from the eponymous British car designer, consisting of £300 million and a five-year expansion plan. This investment plan will positively influence the Surrey-based firm's diversification of their products 5that should follow the successful launch of the T50 supercar.

This investment will go almost fully into the Design division and will be a helpful hand for the GMG’s revolutionary, lightweight, ultra-efficient electric vehicle architecture. Designed to fit urban-oriented passenger and commercial vehicles, more official details about these “highly flexible EV skateboard designed to form the basis of a B-segment vehicle – a little SUV with a compact delivery van derivative, for starters” will be revealed as it goes.

So far, it’s known that the EVs will have four meters in length, becoming a practical small car rather with minimal resemblance to the tiny T27 designed a decade ago. GMG will develop a ‘super-light facility that will seek to “progress weight and complexity reduction of both vehicle architectures and manufacturing processes”.

Another amount of funding will go to another facility at its research and development base in Dunsfold where it will fund the processes of building frames for use in GMG vehicles. Richie Sibal, former of McLaren and Lotus employer is now to head a dedicated electronics division, so we can expect more than excellence and elegance from the future EV-developed powertrains for carmakers and technology companies.

A little bit away from the electrification trend that’s conquering the automotive industry, Murray still wants to put under the T50 supercar’s hood a second V12-engined model, instead of the noisy hybrid. Later this year we will have the T50 entering the production line, also becoming an exclusive, premium orientated, styling, and dynamic principle to offer the future of the GMG models.

Very soon, we will know more about it and who knows. Maybe the GMG customers will get even more than it was promised.