Ford Mustang Rumored To Go Fully Electric In 2028
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Right now, the Ford Mustang is available with a variety of engines that include a turbocharged four-cylinder, naturally aspirated V8s and a supercharged V8. The Mustang’s powertrain lineup will look a lot different by end of the decade, though, with the Pony Car rumored to go fully electric by as early as 2028.
According to Autoline, the Ford Mustang will only offer battery-electric powertrains from December 2028 onward. That means the 2029 model year Ford Mustang will be purely a battery-electric product with no internal combustion engine option. Autoline’s report also indicates the current S550 Mustang will live on until the battery-electric version enters production in late 2028.
The arrival of a battery-electric Ford Mustang seems inevitable, but this rumor contrasts with intel that was fed to our sister site, Ford Authority. We hear a seventh-generation Mustang with internal combustion engine offerings is currently in the works under the S650 codename and will go on sale in 2022 as a 2023 model year product. The S650-generation Mustang will tap the Ford CD6 platform that currently serves in the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator SUVs and will also be available with a hybrid powertrain. Our intel also suggests the new S650-generation Mustang would have an eight-year life cycle, which would take the nameplate to the 2029 model year – just in time for the pure battery-electric model to arrive.
While Ford is said to be considering an electric Mustang, General Motors has already experimented with a battery-electric Camaro offering. Back in 2019, it unveiled the one-off eCOPO Camaro, a battery-electric drag car powered by a pair of BorgWarner electric motors, a race-prepped Turbo 400 automatic transmission and a custom battery pack that used Chevy Bolt EV cells. While the 700 horsepower drag car was built for show and demonstration purposes only, it served as an indication that Chevy could be open to producing a high-performance electric Camaro one day in the future.
With certain U.S. states and the Canadian province of Quebec already outlining plans to ban the sale of new ICE cars by 2035, there will likely be a time when American pony cars like the Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro will have to resort to battery-electric powertrains – the only question is how soon this transition will happen.
We’ll have more on the rumored electric Mustang as this story develops, so be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Chevrolet Camaro news, Chevrolet news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
My god…. I don’t even know what to make of this. Thinking about a future with only electric cars is so depressing. Folks, get ready to spend multiple hours at charging stations every week. Imagine having to spend hours at charge stations every time you need more gas, instead of going to a gas station for 5 minutes. This is the same thing as fascism or communism. The government is taking away our free will and the free market.
Smoke another one.
This is a troll, right?
Yes, from Sam himself!
If speaking from my heart makes me a troll then call me a troll. But ICE will always be better than EV.
Change is hard, but you will be ok big guy.
I like having EV’s as an option, not the ONLY OPTION. This is so sad. I love Mustang and I love Camaro. This is so depressing.
It looks like some of us are doomed down here in Australia in the outback it is 480 klms from our home to the nearest town where there is no EV recharge station so to travel that distance and return we would have to tow a trailer with enough battery power for at least two recharges but then towing the weight of enough batteries would reduce the distance per charge or we could cover the bonnet and roof of the vehicle with solar panels which would still not supply enough power so we would still have to tow a trailer anyway now if we were towing a trailer to pick up supplies we would then have to tow two trailers or take two vehicles one to tow the empty trailer and one to tow the recharge batteries but then there would not be enough power to recharge two vehicles, are well might as well as well go buy a cargo plane that still uses fossil fuel
And your great grandfather was heard to say, “get a horse!”
That is such a cringey cliche at this point, the stupid horse and buggy thing. It was clever the first 600 times you guys used it, now we’re in the millions…lame as hell. I’m middle of the road with EV and ICE, but if you want to expand the EV following, you sure as hell aren’t doing it like that.
It doesn’t matter what any of us think at this point. EVs will almost entirely take over personal transportation. It’s going to happen, it’s going to be different, and it’s going to be fine.
What ever happend to hydrogen power we never hear of reasurch into this any more it seems that the industry has become one eyed on electric propulsion
Realize charging is getting faster every generation, realize that Batteries provide enough range for day to day travel that the majority of charging you need to do will be at home and while you sleep.
I travel about 30 miles a day and my car is plugged in as soon as I get home and is finished by dinner.
With DC fast charging you can get 80% of your charge done in 15 minutes with the solid-state batteries coming out in the near future.
Stop at a rest station, use the restroom, eat your lunch, and by the time you are done and ready to continue traveling you got your range back.
Electric cars are also very exciting to drive, they have low center of gravity and driving dynamics can be fun.
Electric cars are not slow, there are plenty of examples like the Model S Plad.
Yea! 80% in15 coming in 5 years, how about 100% in 1 minute right now!, and with 800 mile range in 5 years. The eletric future really is a dark one, no pun intended as states like California and new York are experiencing blackouts with only a small percentage of the cars electric. You won’t be able to charge anything even if it was instant, and we know cali, New England and Washington aren’t going to build more power plants, in fact their shutting down the few nuke plants they do have. So while you and your EV mustang are sitting dead on the edge of the road going a speedy 0MPH, while me and my big block will be touring the nation on American black gold fracked from private property.
Also, I like these things called road trips. I go 500-1000 miles and see things like the Dayton Air Force museum and mammoth cave. And I can do these in the heat of the summer and cold of the winter without cutting my battery capacity in half.
I also get 500 mile range of fill up on a $35000 truck that has reasonable space. And that is a way better deal than a $45000 smart car. Last I checked I can get that kinda car for $12000, political BS is what this is all about. It’s about politics, media and hype. It’s as big as the turbine cars of the 60’s, minivans of the 2000’s.
Honestly, GM needs to not change the camaro. It’s the V8’s people love.
“minivans of the 2000’s.”
You say that like it’s a fad that went away….
There are plenty of them still being sold to this day…..
All I hear is FUD.
Exciting to drive? They go fast in a straight line, that isn’t what makes a car fun. They are extremely heavy, a Tesla Model S is 5k lbs, that doesn’t make it fun to drive, handling is poor especially in the feel department. People need to realize that fun isn’t an exhaust note with a little power (pick up truck guys) or just fast in a straight line with poor feel and handling (electric guys).
Ever hear of the Porshe Taycan? That has great handling. Then there is BMW’s new i4. It is finishing its’ handling calibrations now and is promised to be just as good and/or better than it’s ICE cousins.
BMW i4 vid: https:// youtu.be/y1gsiHt5zQM
Just recharge at home as millions of actual EV owners do every night! I have my own Level 2 EVSE built from a kit, installed myself, and ready for my first EV.
The future is not that bad. Most charging will be done at home. I’ve come to desire this ability now due to this pandemic. Avoiding high-traffic gas stations would be a plus. Also charging speeds are improving. Today’s best EVs can produce 60 miles of range in just 4-5 minutes. Prototypes in labs suggest future EVs may charge as quickly as 5-10 minutes. The tech has a long way to go, but it looks good so far.
The future is bad in states like California, where they plan to ban ICE cars, yet don’t plan to build more power plants or upgrade their power lines. Plug in EV’s into half of your cars in the cul de sac and boom, transformer explosion. Right now California’s solution to the power shortage is require all new houses to have solar panels instead of roofs, well those 10000$ worth of solar panels are hardly enough to keep up with the house lighting and appliances, even worse if you have an AC unit. Also, forget about it if you have a rainy day or short days in the winter, so you are going to need to be plugged into the grid unless your rich like KY congressman Thomas Massie who owns a 1000 acre farm and had dedicated an entire field to solar panels and has not one, but two Tesla car batter To keep power to run his AC at night. Even then he has a diseil backup generator for winter. Not everyone can pour 100k into power just to run a vehicle that costs another 50k for the same size vehicle that can right now be bought for 15k even if batteries were to drop by a factor of 4, that’s still paying a boat load of money.
And California wants to force everyone to buy these vehicles. That will be a dark day when they are no longer available. The day that mobility died.
I don’t want to delve into politics too much, but it’s true that some areas are going to be burdened more than others. Every region is going to need to do the hard work necessary to compensate for the energy usage. There’s one program that is being tested in Canada that attempts to employ bidirectional EVs to power the grid. So if your EV is fully charged and still plugged in, then your battery could supply energy to the grid. That might help relieve some of the pressure, but I certainly wouldn’t want more than 5% of my battery being taken to supply my region’s energy needs.
Imagine taking road trips with an electric car, that would be like torture.
Electric cars only make sense for house owners, and people who live close to the city. If you live out of town and travel far, you’re pretty much screwed.
This will not be true in 2030. Technology has a tendency to improve, you know?
So how long do you think it will take until EVs charge a battery from 0-100% in the same time it takes to fill up your tank with gas?
Give or take a decade… well within the timeframe for the EV transition to hit full stride.
10 years if we get a breakthrough. 20-25 without one. 30-50 if there is an unforeseen catastrophe (major recession, industry collapse, etc.).
BEV’s? Never ever ever. Think of the physics of it. Batteries literally are a pile of chemicals that undergo a reaction. A refill on gas is a chemical reaction that is already charged. If you forced all these molecules to revert to a single state instantaneously then you know what we call that? An explosion! Also, the faster a charge goes, the more heat build up, cooking the battery. Also more heat is lost reducing the batteries efficiency shooting up your charging bill. That’s why rapid charging is only available up to 80% at that point the battery is at max charge and needs to 1, cool down, 2 let the charges electrons split up the spent molecules.
A hydro car is able to fill up in the same amount of time, batteries NA-uhn impossible. You could do a battery swap, similar to what they do with power tools, but most people don’t want to get a battery that’s been driven real hard or old and only has 50% it’s original charge capacity. Faster charging EV’s will also have to compete with ever more efficient cars. More efficient cars will only require 1-3 gallons of gas to do the same trip an EV will do, thus making pit stops more rapid with ICE cars.
Hydro risks exploding prematurely. There have already been severe accidents around the world with shocking results – I would never endorse such a proposal and I think it’s radical and irresponsible that auto companies are even considering it.
EVs will take years to come close to gasoline, but I wouldn’t discount them altogether just yet. I recently read a report of a research center in Israel that can recharge its prototype battery in 5 minutes, but the caveat is that’s only in the laboratory where promises are made and rarely kept. Still, there are good reports coming out about the future of charging. Today’s EVs are very sluggish compared to what’s being promised.
The change is coming where batteries will charge as fast as a fill of gas. Many gas stations will then install electric islands.
I suspect this is why many people are not investing in charging lots.
I hope it’s not as ugly as the Mach E!
People think they’re saving planet earth by buying an EV… lol what a joke for such ignorant fools. Btw most places in the world, the majority of electricity is still generated from burning fossil fuels and nuclear reactions. So sure there’s no emissions coming out of your tailpipe, but guess what your EV is still consuming fossil fuel and making nuclear waste at the power generating plants.
EV is not about going green, it’s about economic and government control. Making and disposing of EVs is far worse for the environment than ICE. Not to mention the sheer amount of mining that will be required to supply the number of EVs to replace ICE.
Cheaper to build, cheaper to own, and soon cheaper to buy. Also batteries will and are being recycled.
That’s simply not true, the recycling bit. I like both ICE and EV, but that’s just misinformation spouted with no evidence. Battery recycling is in its infancy if anything, and is nowhere near ready to handle the materials from old batteries on the scale we’re likely to see.
Rating? False.
ok but, EV’s are only as clean as the electricity that’s being made. If we can make 60-100% of our electricity from renewable sources (hydro/solar/wind) then sure I’ll support it. But in places like Colorado where all their electricity comes from fossil fuels, it makes no difference. And actually burning fossil fuel and turning it into electricity then using that electricity in batteries causes more pollution than simply burning the gas in the engine in the first place.
Engineering Explained did a grate video on that, and it turns out that EVs pollute less than ICEs over the lifetime of the car in all but 2 or 3 states(and that assumes no improvement to our grid).
It bothers me that they’re forcing this upon us. Why can’t the free market decide? “Laissez Faire” the definition of capitalism and democracy. If EV’s are really that much better people will buy them instead of ICE. But the fact that the government is banning ICE, and forcing us to go EV just doesn’t sit right with me.
I agree with you, the government should impose a carbon tax on all carbon taken out of the ground that covers the cost of all new carbon put into the air.
Alright, that’s it. I need to change my screen name I’ve used here for years so I or anyone else doesn’t think it was me that spewed this nonsense.
Power plants are much more efficient than automobile engines so even without solar or wind, electric vehicles are the way to go.
The United states right now is 25% Renewable energy, and growing; wind and solar being the largest contributors. Battery stations for line balancing are being installed as well. New Nuclear powerplants are also being developed that produce little to no waste.
Change is coming.
Also even if the cars get their energy from dirty electric plants they still have a much smaller CO2 footprint than your normal ICE car.
Wrong! It’s 15% renewable with most of that in hydro wind and solar account for 3 percent of total power produced yet have received 85% of all money invested into power grid in the last 15 years.
That’s from power magazine 2019 grid review
Certain states (Colorado) have 45% of their power from wind. Iowa has 25, and that might be the number our comment or here is using.
Of course Iowa has little heavy industry (manufacturing, metal working, chemical production) and its primary source of energy (nearly 80%) is actually diesel fuel (‘Murica farmers y’all) and Colorado also has no heavy industry and on top of that lower AC bills than much of America.
Currently 60% of our grid is gas turbines which are 60% thermally efficient, but those are piped through power lines and transformers (10% power power loss here) and batteries are not 100% efficient to charge, especially on rapid charge. Typical Lion battery efficiency is 70-90% depending how you use it, and eletric motors are at most 90% efficient, more likely 75-80. For maths purposes let’s assume 90 just to make EV enthusiasts happy, your EV is actually .6x.9x.9x.9=43% efficient or on its bests days, equal to an ice car, less on worse.
Can anybody say bye-bye mustang and muscle cars forever… people who are the buyers of these cars will evaporate. instantly. too many people drank the biden/Harris kool-aid . enjoy your ride….
Right, because electric cars can’t be fast…
You ever drive an electric car? or at least ride in one? You wouldn’t be saying that if you had.
It’s not about whether EVs are good enough or fast enough. It’s about free choice. Why can’t the people who don’t care about cars buy their EVs and let the people who are fans and enthusiasts keep their ICE?
I could literally flip that question right back at you. And make the argument for gas cars. Imagine a world where electric cars was the norm, and gas cars was a new invention. If V8 Corvette’s didnt exist, and I showed you one, you would probably cry in happiness.
Biden is literally the most neutral president that we’ve had for years. Also I think it was pretty concerning that the countries who wanted Trump were shady like Russia and Iraq where as the counties who wanted Biden were Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, etc. Look beyond labels and party names and open your eyes.
The countries who wanted Trump wanted him because they knew the seething hatred for him by left-leaning Americans was so strong that it would forcefully divide the country and weaken us. The countries that wanted Biden wanted him because he’s a feckless weakling who will allow anyone to run roughshod over the United States at our own expense. It’s called playing the dummies…and I don’t blame these countries, either.
If you could give some dumbass kid $5 in exchange for $50 on the school playground, wouldn’t you make that deal every time? That’s how other countries feel dealing with us when we have weak, clueless establishment puppets from BOTH parties in the White House.
very true
If that was the case the GOP wouldn’t still be in power. Face it, Trump tried to be king and failed, Biden isn’t great either BTW.
Biden is even worse, he is a big time failure, believe me.
How is the GOP still in power? Lost the WH, lost the Senate, still doesn’t have the House. What world do you live in??
The Demos don’t have enough seats to stop a Filbuster in the Senate. Fine by me.
Hopefully that means that there will be a lot of bipartisan legislation.
I think you mean “Biden is literally the most neutered President…..”
He’ll only do what he is told.
T- is it True?
H-is it Helpful?
I- is it Inspiring?
N- is it Necessary?
K- is it Kind?
There’s some basic digital citizenship for you.
Interesting to read the comments above. Ned and 4bangcam: What do you think people back in the late 1800’s were saying about that new thing called a “horseless carriage”? Probably sounded similar to what you are saying. BTW, we are talking 7 years from now (for the all electric Mustang) and about 14 years till some states and Canada ban ICE. There is a LOT that can and will change between now and then. Look at the changes in just the past 5 years with electric. What used to take overnight to fully charge now can be done in about 30 minutes with a super charger. On top of that, most ICE vehicles on average can only drive about 3-400 miles between fill ups anyhow. Most electric’s can nearly do that now. So in ten + years, we will see a lot more improvements coming.
Lastly, someone who is really performance oriented should welcome all electric vehicles. They are super fast and the power in instant, all with less maintenance.
Dan, don’t you know? We’ve reached peak civilization. This is the maximum. Any change from this point onward can only be a step backwards. How do you not see this? You’re such a sheep.
Old white men have peaked (except for Bernie Sanders). The skys the limit once cheep old white men are gone (and when the Dakotas are made into one state). Not to mention space exploration. Let’s face it. The only part of the human race that has peaked are boomers. They caused a financial crisis, ruined the economy, and made it so no other generation can be as financially successful as they were. But let’s not lie. They just inherited the economy and slowly rigged and crashed it but it doesn’t matter because they just took the money and ran and died. Millennials did their part by introducing revolutionary technology and now I’m waiting to see what genZ has in stock for the future when ever it’s continuing on Bernie Sanders/AOC’s legacy, a solution to reverse climate change (which is what I’m soon going to be majoring in along with political science) , or to introduce a new age in space exploration.
Fish face, old white men, old white women, old black men and women and old hispanics all have peaked because they are old! That is the definition of peaked! 🤣 Bernie peaked back in middle school, considering his fist job was a government office in his thirties. That’s how useless he is! He couldn’t get a job anywhere. Also, a word of advice, don’t major in poly-sci! As a millennial to my dear gen Z-er, go technical. I got an engeering degree last year, this year I’m out of debt and making 85k. If you can hack engineering, do it because it’s an engineer that will “figure out” how to “save the planet” which as an engineer I don’t think 🤔 is in danger as CO2 levels are at .0039 (rounds to 0%) and that’s why global alarmist always report in tons CO2 and not relative percentges.
Also, a word of advice, change you name so I do t have to refere to you as “fish face” I’d rather respond to your comments by something I can type.
Take your facts and common sense elsewhere. This is a place for knuckle draggers to flex their irrelevant outdated opinions and pretend they’re facts.
Power is really instant in a gas engine. And unlike electric motors, where power fades because it is current limited. In electric motors, power=voltage x current. You will have high torque at low rpm and low torque at high rpm. It’s like racing with a brings and stratton motor. That’s why for nearly 30 years EV enthuist have tried to win drag races and have sucked at it. They can’t beat the constant torque of an ice engine whick is structerally limited, and steel members have an insanely high stress limit. And as for your past 5 years in EV’s what your saying is tesla is now stable and their advanced amount of engineering that goes Into luxury vehicles that barely keep up with a Camaro SS, we had that tech for decades, just it wasn’t economical enough to persue and make a profit. Remember that tesla still makes most their profit from stockbuyers. Gas is where it’s at and will continue to be so.
As for these states and countries banning sales of new gas vehicles in 14 years. They make it 14 years so they can backpedal it, just like the british government did brexit. They will backpedal it indefinitely, except california. They’ll go through with it, overload their electric grid, whatch all their citizens abandon EV’s and see the sale of cars in nevada skyrocket. Honestly, these bans are what will kill EV’s
I feel like this is going to be like when Apple removed their charger from the iPhone and a few months later a bunch of companies followed. Unfortunately, I think the Corvette will have to follow the electric Mustangs path due to climate change laws going into affect in 10 years. I’m hoping that they add a plug in hybrid to the Corvette since plug in hybrids produce high torque and so it can hopefully bypass future laws and still have a V8.
It’s the Probe all over again if they do this. For anyone as a kid who had an R/C car knows how batteries get weak over time. E/Vs are great but not a silver bullet.
I don’t think you’re aware of where the technology is even today, let alone where it will be 7-8 years from now.
Not one of you mentioned the replacement cost of the battery. The retail cost of a Bolt battery is somewhere in the range of $12-15,000. Then there is diagnostic fee to assess original issue, labor to change it and disposal/green fee so the total cost will be about $18k. This means the value of cars that are a few years old will make them a bad choice for lower income people or giving the car to your teenager for college. Green is a term for, ‘you pay more green’. The electric car will dovetail with autonomy and if you think the State won’t abuse that electrical autonomy driving ability to be able to both track and control your movement then you are historically ignorant. Maybe we can hope the State will use autonomous cars to drive all Antifas to ‘re-education’ camps. Why don’t you look up how much it costs for a Tesla replacement battery? Every fuel is ‘situational’ in where it has a best use. And while it is true that electricity ‘from the wall’ simply moves the pollution generation from the tailpipe to an energy producing plant it assuages ignorant people’s feelings and helps them avoid the understanding of the total carbon footprint from manufacturing the battery to disposal. Do any Green people dispute the current problem with electricity generation in California? Do you think you have a right to steal from my wallet to force me to pay the trillions of dollars for a new grid that I do not want to use? Do you know the name for people who try to force other people not to have their freedoms to live their lives? Kevin
There are EV repair shops and smarter Dealerships that know how to repair battery sections, so costs can be much cheaper. Don’t always have to buy a completely new battery pack. There are companies out there that are even selling refurbished battery packs for pennies.
I schould of stated in my first post that I am not denying the car would be quick, just saying part of the experience of a performance car is the sight,the sound and the smells around it. having electric cars are kinda like having a Xbox video war game playing with the sound off, if I wanted to hear an electric motor I would turn on my shop vac and put my ear next to the motor! Either I am told old or the bloggers on here have eaten to much liberal candy…
Seems that there is no concern about so many new EVs hitting the grid in the next ten years and beyond. Coal and nukes will all be gone and greenies are trying to close natural gas plants. Where is the additional power coming from? What happens on cloudy days and no wind? What do EV owners in California do during power outages and shutdowns when the wind blows up fire danger? How about buyers/renters of apartments? Where do they charge? I see lines now at some charging stations in California. Lithium batteries recycled? How about areas of the country with extreme cold 5 months of each year?
Many questions! Hope someone has a plan.
I do! Buy a gas generator as fracking companies do all their drilling on private land. Buy old gas vehicles and keep on trucking. Of course if Texas is to be believed if it gets much worse they’ll secede. I’ll just go there. Tesla’s there already. Even the king of EV’s was run out of California.🤣
Whenever Chevy pulls the trigger on the EV, I’m buying the last MY of the ICE version. No way that there will be enough charging stations where I live. I can still buy 93 octane Shell at 5 stations all less than 10 miles from my house.
Cobalt an ingredient in lithium ion battery production, thousands of minors in Congo dig by hand, children too, but the search carries a high human toll, an estimated 100,000 cobalt miners use hand tools to dig hundreds of feet underground ,deaths and injuries are common, also being expose to toxic metals, is this modern technology to manufacture and supply lithium batteries for electric cars?
Like it or not, you probably won’t find an ICE on the showroom in ten years.
I’m gonna buy used from that day til the day I stop driving. The only EVs for me will be my R/C cars
What concerns me is the fool that forgets to plug their car in but still gets out on the freeway hoping to make it to their destination.
I see a real problem here, true car guys would never support EVa’s for performance cars, considering the amount of support from these post either they are fro the young tech gereration or they work for the battery manufacturer. Kinda like when ford was going to kill the fox body for a front driver, most of the people posting probably supported that too..