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Road Trip: 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium Extended Range

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Road Trip: 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium Extended Range Making the Case To Be Your Only Car Clean Fleet Report recently ventured on a 1,796-mile, four-state road trip in an all-electric 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium AWD Extended. This is our review of the car that made the trip. Here’s an overview.

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Review: 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT goes with Lightning

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The Mach-E is Ford’s only dedicated electric vehicle, with no gasoline equivalent. 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT The Mach-E is one of the mainstream EV market’s originals—a leader in the cohort of electric compact crossover SUVs that have rakish rooflines and curvaceous sculpting meshing with futuristic cues and leading edge interfaces.

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Former Chrysler Execs Join Board of Extended Range Electric Vehicle Conversion Company ALTe

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ALTe’a electric drive system, designed to replace a base V-8 internal combustion engine powertrain, improves fuel economy from 80% to 200%. When I reviewed the business plan and conducted the due diligence personally it was obvious ALTe had tremendous potential. Earlier post.). We will dedicate the time to help make this a big success.

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GM, Ford R&D execs stress importance of improved, advanced fuels for future engine efficiency gains, GHG goals

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According to Brooks, among the technologies GM is looking to in the gasoline engine area are: Continued aggressive downsizing. We don’t need new fuels, we need improved gasoline with high RON, high sensitivity and low variability. Plug-in vehicle GHG CI vary based on the carbon intensity of the electricity produced in a given region.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT and Rally

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This Flash Drive story only touches on all the systems, efficiency, range and driving attributes of the Mustang Mach-E. Clean Fleet Report will write a more in-depth review after having a longer time behind the wheel. All-Electric Driving Range The Mach-E comes in four model choices of Select, Premium, GT, and Rally.

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An Extreme Real World EV Driving (Charging) Test

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Electric vehicles are most efficient when driven in town to take advantage of the regenerative braking, or on the open road at slower speeds. The all-electric efficiency averaged about 3.0 Gasoline fueled vehicles require tune-ups, oil, transmission servicing and other typical maintenance and costs.

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First Ride: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning

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Two of America’s Best-Selling Vehicles Go Electric. Building (literally, which we’ll dive into later) on the Mach-E, Ford’s got two big plays to solidify its transformation into an electric drive-based company. Extended-Range. We frequently speak with converts to electricity that have all said the same thing.

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