Ford Mustang Mach-E EV manufacturing ramping up
Ford has produced its 150,000th Mustang Mach-E electrical SUV after virtually two years – because the battery-powered crossover rolls out throughout extra markets.
The Blue Oval emblem say it plans to scale overall EV manufacturing to 600,000 consistent with 12 months via overdue 2023 and greater than two million via 2026.
The 150,000th Mustang Mach-E was once produced on the Blue Oval’s Cuautitlán stamping and meeting plant in Mexico, which lately won some upgrades to enhance extra manufacturing.
“The plant is humming,” stated Ford director of producing Deborah Manzano.
“There’s a brand new battery line, new chassis line, further meeting line, we’re actually maxing out the gap to make extra Mustang Mach-E cars. We maximum lately added a brand new paint store, too. Not anything is status nonetheless for lengthy!”
Ford additionally produces the Mustang Mach-E in China as a part of a three way partnership with Changan Ford for the Chinese language marketplace.
The Mustang Mach-E will likely be to be had in a complete of 37 nations in 2023, together with new showed markets reminiscent of New Zealand, Brazil and Argentina.
Lacking from this listing is Australia, which isn’t but formally showed via Ford to obtain the Mustang Mach-E. However as lately reported, CarExpert understands the Mustang Mach-E will likely be one of the most in the past introduced 5 electrified Fords due right here via 2024.
It is going to most probably observe the Get away plug-in hybrid (PHEV) which introduced this 12 months, and the electrical E-Transit and E-Transit Customized trucks, due in 2023 and 2024, respectively.
It’s no nice wonder the Mustang Mach-E is about to return right here sooner or later, bearing in mind right-hand power deliveries started in the United Kingdom and Eire ultimate 12 months.
Ford Australia has in the past stated the electrical SUV’s probabilities for an area release have been dampened now not via the loss of call for, however via loss of provide.
It’s unclear what variants will make the go back and forth to Australia, however in the United Kingdom it’s introduced in RWD, AWD and GT guise.
The RWD and AWD fashions are introduced with a number of 75.7kWh (Usual Vary) and 98.7kWh (Prolonged Vary) batteries, with the GT most effective providing the bigger of the 2.
Usual Vary RWD fashions produce 198kW of persistent and 430Nm of torque, with a spread of 439km at the WLTP take a look at cycle. Choosing the Prolonged Vary bumps persistent and vary to 216kW and 610km, respectively.
Usual Vary AWD fashions produce 198kW and 580Nm, with a spread of 399km. With the Prolonged Vary battery, persistent is bumped to 258kW and vary to 539km.
Ford claims outputs of as much as 358kW and 860Nm for the GT, in addition to 499km of vary.
From a standstill the RWD does the 0-100km/h sprint in 6.9-7.0 seconds, the AWD in 5.8-6.3 seconds, and the GT in 4.4 seconds.
Most DC fee persistent is 115kW on fashions with the smaller battery and 150kW on the ones with the bigger battery.
Within, there’s a huge 15.5-inch portrait-oriented central touchscreen, in addition to a normal 10.2-inch virtual device cluster.
Usual apparatus on all UK-market fashions comprises LED headlights, heated and power-adjustable entrance seats, a surround-view digital camera, hands-free persistent tailgate, and a 10-speaker B&O sound machine, with AWD and GT fashions upgrading to adaptive LED headlights.
The advent of the Mustang Mach-E would give Ford a rival not to most effective the Tesla Type Y, but in addition the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 and upcoming Subaru Solterra and Toyota bZ4x.
