Ford’s new modified Mustang Mach-E is ready to fly up Pikes Peak

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is a race event that has been taking place since 1916. It is a 12.42 miles a 4720 -foot and works as a fixed floor for car companies to test the speed and lightness of new cars.

Electric cars tend to achieve a good performance in the PIKES PEAK race; They do not have to deal with the problems of high altitudes and insomnia that can play Racecars that work in fossil fuel, making it perfect test ground. It was the first electric car to win in 2015, when Honda got victory with the CR-z electric. The Volkswagen ID recorded a record in 2018, with the cycle detonated more than 90 miles per hour in less than eight minutes.

But over the past two years, one company has won the King of the Mountain title with greatly designed electric demonstrators: Ford. Engineers in the car race department in the race are enthusiastic with a crazy world. First, there was Supervan 4.2, a “2000 hp” transit car (not a typo) with a rear suite that it seems that it can simply fly to the top of the notorious hill. Then there was the F-150 Lightning Superrtruck, a brutal version of the car manufacturer, such as The Supervan, won the first prize-even after it stopped shortly while operating.

This year, Ford switchs things with Super Mustang Mach-E, an EV protester with similar specifications for Supervan and Supertruck, with some major differences. However, Super Mustang Mach-E will face the same challenge: reaching the top of the hill faster than anyone else.

Zach Burns, an engine engineer, F1 and EV, said in an interview, and while Superrtruck was evolving for Supervan, Super Mustang Mach-E more than “exercise on Earth”. This includes a new comment, full dynamic redesign, carbon brakes, and other additions designed to help the protester charging the famous hill as quickly as possible.

Many will come to the lower direction, and Ford’s performance really outperformed this. You may have noticed that the huge rear suite that reminds us of a more traditional race design with the final paintings on the curved structure. This will help generate Mustang Mach-E to generate amazing 6,900 lbs of 150 miles per hour, bypassing the composition of SuperTruck last year.

“You just see this type of level [of downforce in] F1 and LMP1 [vehicles] Again a day, Burns said: “It is a very high vehicle for the cycle.”

Burns said that the design started last September. By the end of October, the Ford Performance team was “completely committed” to the car design. The final assembly was conducted about a month and a half ago in Austria by Stard Advanced Research and Development, a Ford partner in manufacturing in the project.

Burns said that the team started with the bloc model, as it rides bicycles in “hundreds and hundreds” from the repetitions until they settled on the shape factor, which will be more competitive on the path. He added: “So, you look at the path of the base of the wheels, width, lengths, weights, strength, and lower power – just a kind of all different spectrum of the car and stability on the features you want to get.”

It is important, that Super Mustang Mach-E is a lighter and smarter contestant than his predecessors, with a more renewed and more balanced distribution of weight. This will help in the twisted up of the 12.42 miles, Ford says.

In the heart of Super Mustang Mach-E, there are three engines of 6 stages of Stard UHP that produce more than 1400 hp, all fed by 50 kilowatts of an hour of Nickel-Bolimer Nickel-Bolimer cells. Like entering last year, the protester is working on an effort of 799 volts, but the preparation this year wears an embarrassing weight – more than 260 pounds – with a renewed braking of 710 kW. The carbon brake system is designed in the car, forged magnesium wheels, and Pireli P-Zero tires to withstand the punishment of 156 top 14115 feet.

Ford is looking for a potential hat (or will it be a triple crown?) With this year’s race, which will be held on June 22 in Colorado. As with the previous Pokes Peak participants in Ford, the French race is the French race, Impressario Romain Dumas will try Mach-E to the top. Mark Dumas’ with the team, Mustang Mach-E will hold the official race number 310-a sign of its third insert with Performance Ford and Pikes Peak in general.

But this is not some vanity project for Ford. The company says the main learning from Super Mustang Mach-E and its counterparts “actively influence” the next generation of Ford EVS production. This includes innovations in battery chemistry, thermal management, and high -performance electrical driving units “tested under severe pressure in Pikes Peak”.

“These vehicles are the upper level of the climax of what you can see and what we do here,” Burns said. “I think this certainly helps to verify the health and improve what we are doing on the production side.”