900 hp / 1000 tq.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/electric-ford-mustang-lithium
Comes with a 6 speed manual tranny.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/electric-ford-mustang-lithium
Comes with a 6 speed manual tranny.
900 hp / 1000 tq.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/electric-ford-mustang-lithium
Comes with a 6 speed manual tranny.
I with you to a point, I have no interest either, does not have it's place in the US but you can bet they'll be pushing it overseas.Ima chalk this up to don't give a shit. Car looks nice. Other than that. Don't care. Ford is just trying to say "Look! We can do electric!"
Electric cars have their place in the market. In the Mustang is not it.
Actually Ford didn't do the car. It was built by Webasto with MRT for SEMA show to demonstrate Webasto's batteries etc.Ima chalk this up to don't give a shit. Car looks nice. Other than that. Don't care. Ford is just trying to say "Look! We can do electric!"
Electric cars have their place in the market. In the Mustang is not it.
I with you to a point, I have no interest either, does not have it's place in the US but you can bet they'll be pushing it overseas.
Saw some other videos of him before, he's done that to quite a number of high hp cars, think it was Z06 Vette and Lambo, made em both look ridiculous. Is pretty amazing what those things do. Gets off the line very fast but they were running him down near the finish. Would like to see one on a road course.It may well be superb for 15-20 min road courses..... except for perhaps differential heat issues.
That guy with his Tesla at the dragstrip is a hoot. He gives the 707 hp hell cat, a huge head start..... then he proceeds to eat their lunch. Low 7's is superb.
My greatest dislike of electric cars that are currently on the market is that they are all automatic transmissions. Why? Because I love shifting gears and having to use the clutch and accelerator pedals. Having to do so is part of the driving experience that I was taught, and without that part, you're just getting from point A to point B. Automatic transmissions are boring, and paddle shifters aren't the same.
Here, Ford has given us an option worthy of the Mustang badge.
Is it what you're used to, no. But don't turn your nose up at it as an option for what will be available to us in the future. Gasoline engines are on the way out. And when they're gone, do you want the car manufacturers to simply offer you a vehicle that looks like a Prius, or a Volt, or a Leaf?
Hell no you don't! That's why you bought a Mustang in the first place!
You wanted a muscle car!
What is an electric car with 900 hp with 1,000 lb-ft of torque...
A MUSCLE CAR YOU'LL NEVER HEAR COMING! HA!
But it's still a muscle car.
Do I love the sound of the gasoline powered V8 engine in my Mustang GT, absolutely!
Would I give up the sound to help save the planet? Yes.
Do I want a car that looks like a Prius, or a Volt, or a Leaf? Hell no I don't!
What worries me is the thought of how much an electric muscle car will cost.
A 2020 Toyota Prius Prime costs $27,750.
My 2008 Mustang GT cost $28,000. (300 hp, 320 ft/lbs torque)
A 2019 Nissan Leaf costs $29, 990.
A 2019 Tesla Model 3 costs $33,315.
A 2020 Chevy Volt costs $33,520.
A 2020 Ford Fusion Plug-in Hybrid costs $35,000.
A 2020 Chevy Bolt EV costs $36,620.
The 2020 Mustang GT with similar features as my '08 costs $39,630. (460 hp, 420 ft/lbs torque)
At the far end of the spectrum...
A 2019 Porsche Taycan 4S costs $103,800.00. (562 hp, 479 ft/lbs torque)
A 202? Ford Mustang Lithium costs....$???,??? (900 hp, 1,000 ft/lbs of torque)
A 2020 Tesla Roadster is in the $200,000 neighborhood. (7,375.62 ft/lbs torque)
So, if in the future Ford can give us a non-supercar spec (but healthy muscle car spec ~500hp), manual transmission, maybe selectible 2WD/4WD, all electric Mustang GTE, that is less than $40,000, I'm all in!
But maybe not until my 2008 GT kicks the bucket or they stop making gas for it, but certainly when the only other option is a frackin' Prius!
The bearings and carbon brushes in electric motors do eventually wear out anyway so they'd either need rebuilding or replacing at some point. The battery packs have a limited lifespan (10 years?) and are enormously expensive to replace, so car manufacturers don't need to engineer additional failure points into the cars.
I plan on keeping my '06 GT forever so when the time comes to say goodbye to my V8, I'll swap in an electric motor with battery pack. By then I'm sure that the aftermarket will already be offering electric motor/battery pack kits to retrofit into older Mustangs so we can keep ours going for a few more years.