A car maker is aiming to bring mass production back to Scotland for the first since the 1980s, with an electric 4x4 vehicle.
Munro Vehicles says it will hand-build 50 cars in East Kilbride next year before moving to a purpose-built factory near Glasgow.
It aims to produce 250 units in 2024, then ramp up to 2,500 a year by 2027.
The company, which plans to create 300 jobs over time, said it had already received orders from around the globe.
The BBC says the Munro MK1 will be the first car to be built at scale in Scotland for decades.
The Hillman Imp was mass produced in Linwood, Renfrewshire, throughout the 1960s and 70s. In 1981 Peugeot-Talbot closed down the plant.
Run for 16 hours
According to Munro, the all-electric car can run for up to 16 hours on a single battery charge.
The idea for the MK1 came from Munro Vehicles co-founders Russell Peterson and Ross Anderson.
The pair were on a camping trip in the Highlands, when they found the car they were driving was struggling with steep climbs.
Mr Peterson said: "It dawned on us that there was a gap in the market for an electric-powered, four-wheel-drive, utilitarian workhorse.
"We envisioned a vehicle with ultimate, go-anywhere, off-road ability, unrestricted by road-derived underpinnings that limit the all-terrain ability of vehicles such as the 4x4 pick-up trucks that have come to dominate the market."
Munro launched in 2019 with private funding provided by Mr Anderson and Mr Peterson.
A further injection of capital was raised in late 2021 through London-based Elbow Beach Capital.
Massive opportunities
- There will be massive opportunities for electric vehicle manufacturers in the decades to come.
The International Energy Agency says few areas in the world of clean energy are as dynamic as the electric car market.
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) doubled in 2021 from the previous year to a new record of 6.6million.
Back in 2012, just 120 000 electric cars were sold worldwide.
Nearly 10% of global car sales were electric in 2021 - four times the market share in 2019. This brought the total number of electric cars on the world's roads to about 16.5million.
Global sales of electric cars have kept rising strongly in 2022, with 2million sold in the first quarter, up 75% from the same period in 2021.
The agency says the increase in EV sales in 2021 was primarily led by China, which accounted for half of the growth. More vehicles were sold in China in 2021 (3.3million) than in the entire world in 2020.
Sales in Europe showed continued robust growth (up 65% to 2.3million) after the 2020 boom, and they increased in the US as well to 630,000 after two years of decline.