---
title: "The Icon Derelict 1949 Mercury Coupe at SEMA Is All-Electric"
description: "Icon builds an EV Derelict 1949 Mercury Coupe to shock attendees at the 2018 SEMA show."
date: "2018-10-30"
modified: "2018-10-30"
authors:
  - name: "Elizabeth Puckett"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/elizabeth-puckett"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/24576/the-icon-derelict-1949-mercury-coupe-at-sema-is-all-electric"
categories:
  - "Builds"
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Culture"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "2018 SEMA Show"
  - "all-electric"
  - "EV"
  - "ICON 4x4"
  - "mercury"
---

# The Icon Derelict 1949 Mercury Coupe at SEMA Is All-Electric

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Icon is rocking the SEMA 2018 show with a Derelict 1949 Mercury Coupe that might be the most SEMA appropriate restomod in the Las Vegas Convention Center this year. It’s not just the fact that this sleeper patina-clad hot rod looks killer that makes it stand out from the crazy builds of the show, it’s what’s under the hood. This Derelict is all-electric.

Icon has been working on the ‘49 Mercury Coupe since earlier this year, or at least that’s when they started talking about it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/_/status/995717727208722432

“This pioneering build adds the sort of visceral connection no modern EV can provide,” said Icon.

The electric powertrain is co-engineered between Icon and Stealth EV, even though it looks like a V8 under the hood. There’s actually two motor controllers and half of a Tesla battery pack where the engine would normally sit. The powertrain as a whole is capable of putting out around 400 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque. It also has a limited-slip differential and the whole car sits on an Art Morrison chassis with independent suspension.

![message-editor%2F1540930561100-icon-1949-mercury-coupe-ev-derelict-1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1540930561100-icon-1949-mercury-coupe-ev-derelict-1.jpg>)
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![message-editor%2F1540930568624-icon-1949-mercury-coupe-ev-derelict-3.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1540930568624-icon-1949-mercury-coupe-ev-derelict-3.jpg>)
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![message-editor%2F1540930575735-icon-1949-mercury-coupe-ev-derelict-4.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1540930575735-icon-1949-mercury-coupe-ev-derelict-4.jpg>)
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![message-editor%2F1540930597979-icon-1949-mercury-coupe-ev-derelict-5.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1540930597979-icon-1949-mercury-coupe-ev-derelict-5.jpg>)
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As far as the looks go, it bares the appearance of what we’ve come to expect from Icon, and one the patina enthusiasts will definitely gawk over. A Derelict badge and one of Ward's signature lizard sculptures, with a lizard engraved gas cap gives away that this is no ordinary show car, at least to the trained eye. And by the way, under that lizard gas cap is a cleverly hidden supercharger connector.

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