If Alec Issigonis was designing the classic Mini today, he would have given it an electric motor – and that’s why experts at the BMW-owned Mini plant in Oxford have begun doing exactly that. Engineers take a classic Mini with its four-pot petrol engine and install an electric motor, giving the combustion versions a new green lease of life. Mini recharged is the name given to the project which transforms a classic Mini produced between 1959 and 2000. The modern electric motor generates a continuous output of up to 90 kW and accelerates the classic from zero to 100 km/h in around nine seconds. T…