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Presenting Car and Driver's 2021 EV of the Year
Presenting Car and Driver's 2021 EV of the Year

Out of a smallish group.

If an automaker wanted to convert people from EV skeptics to EV evangelists, it's hard to imagine a better vehicle for the job than the Ford Mustang Mach-E. It arrives in the familiar shape and size of the crossovers Americans love, at a price that competes with gas-powered alternatives, and with a design that gets noticed. The Mach-E has the range and charging speed to wave off the most common EV criticisms, and thanks to Electrify America's recent work, there's a nationwide charging network that makes long interstate trips not just possible but tolerable. For new EV converts, piloting a Mach-E isn't so different from driving a gas-burning SUV that it feels foreign, yet the experience is futuristic enough to be exciting. It's the right car to bring drivers along during this watershed moment as EVs transition from niche alternative to new normal.
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The Other 2021 EV of the Year Contenders
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2021 Mustang Mach-E Lives up to the Hype
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Car and Driver Answers 20 Questions about EVs
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Best of all, the Mach-E is fun. It moves us past the argument that we should drive EVs because they're better for the environment and proposes a simpler, more fundamental truth: EVs can be as rewarding to drive as their gas counterparts. The Mach-E strikes a sweet balance between practical and visceral, landing in the space where Mazda often operates. Ford has built an EV that's suited to kid-hauling duty, Costco runs, and daily commutes but that doesn't strip the soul out of driving.
You don't attack a road in this Mustang. You set a swift pace and find flow in a seamless plateau of torque as you transition between foot-to-the-floor acceleration and the precise modulation of regenerative braking during one-pedal driving. The all-wheel-drive, big-battery version makes 346 horsepower and hits 60 mph in 4.9 seconds. On city streets, tapping into that power is exhilarating. The Mach-E punches out of 25-mph corners and zaps past dawdling delivery trucks. Thrust arrives as fast as your foot can ask for it.

I saw one in person in DC, and I don't care for the styling either.  I bet if they called it something else they could drop the quasi-Mustangish addons and make it look decent.

Their truck looks fine, to me.  

Yeah, the Mustang Mach-E is not only wrongly-named, it's hideous. 

Chip shortages are temporary, don't let them affect any long term investment strategy.

We're experiencing the exact same IC shortages in my industry, but still recording record sales.  Customers just know they're going to have to wait longer, and are getting in line to ensure they lock in the current prices before they go up (again).

For those pulling travel trailers, I presume KOA will accommodate them with multiple charging stations, in time.

Maybe, but the range while towing a heavy load is going to be quite small, so I don't think there's much of a use case for towing with EVs more than maybe in-town landscaping/service trailers, for a while.

Wouldn't work for us. We need 2500's to get around construction sites while carrying a lot of equipment, wood, and iron pipes.

I think the Ford EV truck would carry all that just fine.

It is very powerful.

I'm sure some heavy duty uses need the half ton frame, but a lot of lighter duty 1500 users would be attracted to this, if they can afford it.

It's not going to be good at towing much distance nor distance travel, but it will be great for a large segment of the truck market, I think.  I also think an EV delivery van on the same chassis has to be close behind.

You see almost no pickups in Europe, the workers use vans, in large part because anything in a truck bed would get stolen quickly.  A lot of Americans don't realize how prevalent theft is in parts of Europe like France.