UK-based startup charge automotive has announced it is putting an all-electric mustang into production. in partnership with arrival, known for their electric trucks used by the royal mail, UPS, roborace, and michelin, the company will pack a 300-kilowatt electric motor and a 64 kilowatt-hour battery pack into classic 1960s-style mustang body shells licensed from ford. a limited edition of 499 will be available.
images courtesy of charge
charge claims each electric mustang will be able to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 3.09 seconds. the battery produces 300kW and 1,200nm – that’s just over 400bhp and a whopping 885lb ft of torque. range is estimated at 124 miles.
rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive modes are both available and charge says each mustang will be equipped with ‘state of the art components and a personalised digital interface‘. a trailer showing off the mustang reveals a large touchscreen on the center stack where users can switch between modes. they’ll be priced from $255,509 and ship to buyers in september next year. they are taking reservations with a £5,000 deposit right now.
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OK. So we make the same testosterone-cars, like in 20th century, as if we didn’t learn from the past and refuse to see the future that is promised to us and our children..
But electric, thus greenwashed!
Sounds macho and eco, especially on electric energy produced on coal energy plants
Cool! The more people experience that electric driving can be fun, the more people around them see that it’s hip to dump the fossile dinosaurs.
If you reduce electric driving to its reasonable aspects, you won’t get the people for who a car is more than economic transportation – although this would be the ideal views of life. It will be coming, relax.
As long as you don’t work out that at 300kW a 64kWh battery will last 5 minutes…
lf “T” can make a “S” for about $100k l don’t see why you can’t drop a retro body on their skateboard and keep the price about the same.