Ford presents a 1400-hp electric Mustang | Car News

Ford offers a to start with glance at its extensive-promised all-electrical Mustang: satisfy the Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, all 1400-hp of it.

The auto field may possibly be at a near-standstill, that does not prevent sure assignments from moving forward, even coming to completion. At Ford, the extensive-promised extremely-effective electrical Mustang is a single of them, and the business has just presented it… nearly.

The prototype, which requires the name Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, is run by a battery that delivers a jaw-dropping one,four hundred hp and one,a hundred lb-ft of torque. The all-electrical concept was designed to reveal how an electrical powertrain could satisfy the overall performance wants of the racing globe, extra specifically that of drag racing.

And what does it do? It give a spectacular outcome in the ultimate exam by which all pure-pace cars are measured:  the quarter mile. Greatest instances for that yardstick during the heyday of muscle mass cars were all-around 13 seconds, but modern unique cars have managed to reduced that to underneath ten seconds. We are chatting about the likes of the Lamborghini Avantador, MacLaren P1, Bugatti Veyron and… yes, the Dodge Challenger Demon. That auto ripped the quarter-mile length in 9.sixty five seconds, with a top rated pace of 140 mph (225 km/h).

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The Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, on the monitor

A challenging act to comply with, you say? The Ford prototype does it in underneath eight seconds and a top rated pace of one hundred seventy mph (274 km/h). Intellect you, which is however a extensive way from skilled drag racing cars, which do it in underneath four seconds when topping out at in excess of three hundred mph (482 km/h).

As it occurs, the current record for cars (Top rated Gasoline Class) with an electrical motor was established by famous drag racer Don Garlits, now 87 many years young, just last December. His quarter-mile time was 7.235 seconds with a top rated pace of 189.04 miles for every hour (304 km/h).

Ford’s prototype is pretty much there, without having benefiting from the aerodynamics and diminished excess weight of a drag-racer.

“Ford has always utilised motorsport to reveal innovation. Electric powered powertrains give us a totally new form of overall performance and the all-electrical Cobra Jet 1400 is a single instance of pushing new engineering to the absolute restrict. We’re excited to showcase what is attainable in an fascinating year when we also have the all-electrical Mustang Mach-E becoming a member of the Mustang family members.”

– Dave Pericak, International Director, Ford Icons

Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, profile

Incidentally, the Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 is named in homage to the original Cobra Jet, a design that ravaged drag strips in the late sixties.

“This project was a obstacle for all of us at Ford General performance, but a obstacle we beloved leaping into. We noticed the Cobra Jet 1400 project as an possibility to begin acquiring electrical powertrains in a race auto package that we currently had a great deal of encounter with, so we had overall performance benchmarks we preferred to match and beat right now. This has been a wonderful project to do the job on, and we hope the to start with of a lot of coming from our team at Ford General performance Motorsports.”

– Mark Rushbrook, International Director, Ford General performance Motorsports

Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, a few-quarters rear

The Ford General performance division is however working on the advancement of the auto and a extra formal unveiling is prepared for later this year. The world circumstance permitting, the celebration will choose place during drag-racing celebration.

Plainly, the times when electrical cars were roundly dismissed for the deficiency of pleasure they shipped are coming to an end.  There could possibly be a great deal of adjusted minds when folks begin to park them selves inside an electrical-run Mustang.

Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, from above

Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, electrical powertrain

Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, completely ready on the monitor

Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, in acceleration