With the recent presentation of the electric Dodge Charger Daytona STR it has become clear that the concept of the classics muscles Americans will inexorably turn to all-electric models. Another historical model that is already waiting for its conversion to “zero emissions” will be the future Ford Mustang coupé, whose electrified versions already have a date of arrival on the market.
has been the medium autoweek who, backed in turn by a report published in AutoForecast Solutionshas announced the arrival of the electric Ford Mustang by the end of this decade. It is expected that in the coming months, the model will receive a major update in the form of a new generation, which will be presented at the next Detroit Auto Show in January, and will go into production in March 2023 as “Model Year 2024”. ”.
However, the model that Ford will present next 2023 is not expected to take the electrical relay to the current model equipped with gasoline mechanics. It will, however, have some electrical support in the form of plug-in hybridization as a more efficient alternative. eco friendly for the V8 engine variant. Not in vain, this will be the last generation of the model that will host a purely thermal mechanics.
On Ford’s calendar already the year 2028 is marked in redsince it will mean the arrival of an update of the model that will be presented in 2023 and, with it, the Mustang will take the total electrification of its mechanics, completely replacing the heat engine of the “pony-car”. According to the aforementioned report, the future electric Ford Mustang will be manufactured on the same platform as the current Ford Mustang Mach-E and the next updates that will come to it.
From Ford they fully trust that said platform fits perfectly with the philosophy much more focused on the sportiness of the Mustang coupé, since it has a rear-wheel drive alternative. The success of the Mustang Mach-E in all markets will be a key factor in the development of the two-door electric model.
At Ford they have been working for several years on the renewal of the Mustang that will be presented next January, since, although it will retain the traditional mechanics, it will incorporate important advances with respect to the first electrification of the model. According to what some analysts have been able to assure, the signature of the oval It will show the first Mustang coupe 100% electric in the year 2028 and will begin its marketing at the end of that same year as a 2029 model.
The renewal that Ford will present in Detroit will not show a groundbreaking design, but rather an evolutionary one on what the brand has today. To take a step forward in terms of aesthetics, they will wait for the aforementioned electric Mustang from the end of the decade. The one mentioned as “Ford Mustang 2024” will have a short marketing periodonly 5 years old, unlike the current one that was presented in 2015 (it will be on the market for 8 years) or the one before it, which was launched in 2005 (9 years of vital trajectory).
Despite the few existing official confirmations, it is highly likely that the 2023 Ford Mustang will arrive with some electrical support (hybridization). Already in the year 2017 they announced that the Mustang coupe would receive a hybrid mechanics in 2020, something that finally did not happen and which has given rise to rumors that the next update of the model is the one that finally incorporates said technology.
