New Electric Ford Mustang

[colin7673]

It would seem that there is always going to be mixed feeling about EVs...

The technology is, I would say, can do much longer distances in these cars, but let's be honest it's all about money..
Early electric cars today, didn't go much further then they did 100 years ago. Which I really find hard to believe they couldn't of gone further on one charge.. But then after a few years out come another model and it travels further than the last, because technology is better, then out comes another model which travels further,,, because technology is better... And so on...
The owners of the first generation trade up.. what happens to those cars ??
The batteries of these first generation.??
There is already a mountain of 'normal' car batteries which can't be recycled so what happens to them..
Toyota have a car that has broken the world record for travelling on in tank of Hydrogen just over 1000miles and have plans to out sell Tesla..
it is interesting times for sure.

I think it going to be a case of who dares wins.

[Richie]

Whilst perusing one of the on line classic car websites, I was reminded that Ford have prostituted the Mustang name before.

To be fair, or maybe kind, to Ford, the electric Mustang is probably more deserving of the name than this horror.

Given that every car will soon, in part at least, be electric, I suppose Ford using the Mustang name was inevitable. So why not use it now?

But I still think they missed a trick with the name. I suggested Thunderbolt earlier, but how about bringing back the XR moniker?

XR3e anyone?

[Frankoid]

If I were Elon Musk I would buy the Jensen name and launch.....

"The Jensen Interceptor Electric Lightening" ... This refences the English Electric Lightening Interceptor fighter jet, a nod to Jensens of old. A cross between the 541 with blank radiator grill and power bulges with composite carbon fibre bodywork, referencing the fantastic 541 & CV8 futuristic bodies and the lithe lines of the Vignale Interceptor. Id buy one...

PS. Apologies to our resident artist Grant....

[colin7673]

If I were Elon Musk I would buy the Jensen name and launch.....

"The Jensen Interceptor Electric Lightening" ... This refences the English Electric Lightening Interceptor fighter jet, a nod to Jensens of old. A cross between the 541 with blank radiator grill and power bulges with composite carbon fibre bodywork, referencing the fantastic 541 & CV8 futuristic bodies and the lithe lines of the Vignale Interceptor. Id buy one...

PS. Apologies to our resident artist Grant....

Think this country has lost enough over the years and been ruined look at the Mini.. A mini it is not

[Richie]

We've had the Viperceptor so how about the Electroceptor?

[Martin R]

We've had the Viperceptor so how about the Electroceptor?

Believe it or not, I have been told that it is being done by someone well known to the club...

[colin7673]

Saw this elsewhere and though I’d share as it was interesting...

William C. Brown when an EV can recharge to full in 5 mins and the power grid evolves to have 10X+ the capacity it currently has to power them all.

Apparently 1 gallon of gasoline requires 0.6 kWh of electricity to refine. Well a Tesla model 3 long range requires 0.23 kWh per mile in the most ideal conditions, so on the same 0.6 kWh of electricity will go more or less 3 miles. Pretty much every ICE car that isn't a dragster goes much further than 3 miles on a gallon of gasoline, pretty much anything modern is in the 30+ mpg range and 50+ mpg is also very common now. To go 30 miles the Tesla would need 6.9 kWh of electricity, now that's a lot of electricity, it's 1150% more, or 11.5x more electricity. Tell me how any country's electric grid is going to be able to increase its capacity 5x, let alone 11.5x in the next few years. That's again, ideal conditions, the reality is closer to 0.3 kWh per mile.

Given all that 0.6 kWh per gallon of gasoline is a bargain.

[RAP72]

Colin

I was once told that 83,723% of all stats are made up on the spot.

Does that "0.6 kWh of electricity to refine" include the drilling power costs and the transportation shipping and road tanker costs to [and from] the refinery? Having had the attached for a week I am enjoying the 4p per mile and no car tax. Plus when visiting my daughter and family at the weekend I filled up for free

[ajc9415]

I think the Tesla is a great car. You can do that maths however you like but it’s not about economics it about pollution. There has to be a better way than the ICE. For now that is probably battery but there are a lot of negatives with them. I don’t have the answer but I’m pretty sure it’s not petrol or diesel.

[RAP72]

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