Ford Racing’s Mustang Cobra Jet 2200 simply ran 1 / 4 mile in 6.87 seconds at 221 mph at an NHRA match in Charlotte, environment a brand new global document for an EV. The run smashed Ford’s personal earlier EV document of seven.62 seconds, set by way of the Cobra Jet 1800 final September, by way of an outstanding 0.75 seconds.
Because the identify suggests, Ford’s Cobra Jet 2200 places a large 2,200 horsepower to the wheels due to a newly designed electrical motor and inverter combo. Ford elected to make use of two motors and inverters as a substitute of 4 of every as sooner than to scale back complexity and spice up performance to 98 p.c. Total energy is up by way of 600 horsepower, however the motors and inverters weigh part up to sooner than. The whole lot runs on a 900-volt structure and 32 kWh battery that fees in 20 mins, simply sufficient for the NHRA’s 45-minute turnaround rule.
The automobile has some atypical options for an EV like a grab that shall we the motive force unload all of the energy to the street right away for max acceleration. It additionally makes use of a multi-speed transmission that permits the automobile to run in its best energy band during the period of the run — lowering the quarter-mile time by way of as much as a 2d, in line with Ford. The battery design additionally allowed the workforce to music weight distribution for optimum traction. Any other racing contact is a pyrotechnic circuit breaker that may right away destroy the high-voltage connection by way of a small explosive fee to align with NHRA protection laws.
A few of this tech, just like the high-efficiency motors and 900 volt machine, may just conceivably trickle right down to client cars. Sadly, Ford and different US automakers have considerably diminished their funding in BEV generation of overdue. Ford just lately introduced that it could reboot the F-150 Lightning as an EREV with a gasoline generator, whilst final week GM behind schedule its next-gen full-size EV pickups and SUVs — all within the face of swiftly emerging gas costs.
