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News<br />
Ford scales up charge network<br />
for arrival of award winning<br />
All-Electric Mustang<br />
<strong>The</strong> size of the charge network<br />
available to Ford electric vehicle<br />
drivers has increasedmore than<br />
threefold in readiness for first deliveries<br />
of the Mustang Mach-E performance<br />
SUV.Ford is expanding its long-standing<br />
business partnership with bp by adding<br />
pulse – the biggest public charging<br />
networkin the UK – to the Ford Pass<br />
charging network.<strong>The</strong> move ahead of<br />
the arrival of the all-electric Mustang<br />
Mach-E increases Ford’s UK network<br />
from almost 3,000 chargepoints to<br />
around 9,500.DrivingElectric’s favourite<br />
future carReaders of specialist site<br />
DrivingElectric.com named the Ford<br />
Mustang Mach-E their ‘Future Electric<br />
Car’ of the yearin the 2021 DrivingElectric<br />
awards.Editor Richard Ingram said: “Our<br />
readers are fully on board with Ford’s<br />
decision to use the famous Mustang sports<br />
carname. Mustang Mach-E’s electric<br />
drivetrain helps, giving the car the stats<br />
to live up to its name, with 0-62mph<br />
comingup in under four seconds in the<br />
upcoming GT version."Ford Pass on<br />
the pulseFord Mustang Mach-E drivers<br />
can use FordPass to locate, navigate to,<br />
monitor and pay for charging at over<br />
6,600 chargepoints in the UK belonging<br />
to the new bp pulse network.Mustang<br />
Mach-E owners will enjoy one year’s<br />
free bp pulse access, including a rapidly<br />
growing number of high-power150kW DC<br />
chargers, 50kW DC chargers and almost<br />
6,000 7kW AC points.<strong>The</strong> trebling of Ford’s<br />
network size provides reassurance to<br />
offset one of the main concerns about<br />
switching to electric– range anxiety.Ford’s<br />
Mustang Mach-E performance Battery<br />
Electric Vehicle also reassures, thanks to<br />
its intelligent range calculationsdrawing<br />
on live data to produce as accurate an<br />
available range display as possible, taking<br />
into account weather conditionson route<br />
affecting capability and information from<br />
other Mustang Mach-Es.<strong>The</strong> inclusion<br />
of bp’s pulse network into the FordPass<br />
network is in addition to 3,000 existing<br />
chargers. Also availableto Mach-E drivers<br />
is one year’s free subscription to Ionity’s<br />
ultra-fast chargers at 15 sites in the UK<br />
and five in Ireland.Ford offers its Ford<br />
Connected Wallbox for all-electric and<br />
plug-in hybrid vehicle customers at<br />
home – delivering up tofive times the<br />
charging power of a typical domestic<br />
socket.Mark Harvey, Ford’s European<br />
enterprise connectivity director, said:<br />
“Starting 2021 with the excitingMustang<br />
Mach-E will accelerate Ford’s progress<br />
towards electrified engines accounting<br />
for more than half of our car sales by the<br />
endof 2022.“Key to this roll-out is the<br />
supporting infrastructure available to Ford<br />
customers, and today’s announcement<br />
demonstratesour commitment to match<br />
more electrified vehicles with enough<br />
locations to charge them.”<strong>The</strong> highperformance<br />
Mustang Mach-E, arriving<br />
this spring, equipped with extended-range<br />
battery and all-wheel drivewill deliver<br />
0-62mph acceleration in 5.1 seconds and a<br />
targeted WLTP pure electric driving range<br />
of up to 335 miles.<strong>The</strong> rear-wheel drive<br />
Mustang Mach-E has a 379-mile WLTP<br />
range.<br />
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