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Galloping into a gas-free future in Ford s first electric vehicle
During my test drive of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium, I continually pondered one question: Why was Ford s first battery electric vehicle called a Mustang? It s a fair question.
Jul. 17 2021 @ 5:13pm
During my test drive of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium, I continually pondered one question: Why was Ford s first battery electric vehicle called a Mustang? It s a fair question.
In the wake of the initial Mustang s success in the mid-1960s, Ford considered building Mustang sedans and station wagons. Instead, they built a Thunderbird sedan that tarnished the Thunderbird s good name forever. It was now little more than an aging automotive rock star that, in rock star fashion, had annihilated its brains doing drugs.
Problem beim Bergab-Fahren: Elektro-Mustangs machen reihenweise schlapp
Rekuperation – also die Rückgewinnung von Energie beim Bremsen – ist eine der wohl praktischsten Funktionen in den meisten Elektroautos. Sie kann jedoch in bestimmten Fällen auch zu unangenehmen Zwischenstopps führen: In einem beschaulichen norwegischen Dorf sind innerhalb von 14 Tagen sechs Ford Mustang Mach-E nach längeren Bergabfahrten ohne Vorwarnung liegengeblieben.
Das beschauliche Ãrtchen Geiranger im Nordwesten Norwegens hat nicht mal 300 Einwohner â in den Sommermonaten erlebt die Ortschaft jedoch alljährlich einen regelrechten Tourismus-Boom. Das liegt nicht zuletzt daran, dass eine der beliebtesten TouristenstraÃen des Landes von den umliegenden Bergen direkt nach Geiranger führt. Genau diese StraÃe hat nun in dem Land, das aktuell den weltweit gröÃten Anteil an Elektroautos besitzt, dazu geführt, dass ein halbes Dutzend Ford Mustang Mach-E einfach liegengeblieben
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When electric vehicles are everywhere, these gasoline cars could become valuable
Jamie L. LaReau, Detroit Free Press
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1958 Chevrolet Bel Air Impala (Photo, General Motors)
DETROIT – At about 8:30 in the morning on Feb. 27, 2020, the last Chevrolet Impala sedan rolled off the assembly line at the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck plant.
GM then shut down the line and has spent $2.2 billion and nearly two years to retool it to build just electric vehicles there starting later this year under the new moniker: Factory ZERO.
The Impala was a modest car starting at about $31,620. Oh, but that particular cherry red Impala that rolled off the line that day could end up worth a whole lot more in the future, car experts said.