Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 is a 1,400-hp electric drag racer

Ford at the time much more harnesses its Mustang to pull the automaker’s cart of battery-electrical systems, this time with the Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 prototype. That is ideal, Ford Effectiveness produced a battery-electrical dragster with enable from suppliers MLe Racecars, Watson Engineering, AEMEV, and Cascadia. The whirring racer packs a battery of undisclosed ability and a overall output of 1,400 horsepower and much more than 1,100 pound-ft of torque from an undisclosed variety of motors. From the movie, it also appears to be like like the powertrain residences a two-pace transmission. With all that electrical muscle, the Cobra Jet 1400 is “projected to crush the quarter-mile in the low-8-2nd vary at much more than one hundred seventy mph.”   

 

Far more than a test of pushing Ford’s EV understanding to the restrict, Mark Rushbrook, world-wide head of Ford Effectiveness Motorsports, stated, “We observed the Cobra Jet 1400 undertaking as an chance to start acquiring electrical powertrains in a race auto package that we previously had a lot of encounter with, so we had overall performance benchmarks we wished to match and conquer ideal now.”  The very last Cobra Jet, from 2018, packed a Whipple-supercharged 5.two-liter Coyote V8 and was suspected of manufacturing close to 1,000 horsepower for a mid-8-2nd quarter-mile at 150 miles for each hour. When Hennessey put a 2016 Cobra Jet on the dyno, that auto run by a supercharged 5.-liter Coyote V8, the unwanted fat rear rubber put 871 hp by the rollers, and that Cobra Jet was also rated an 8.5-2nd auto. 

The true tease for what the Cobra Jet 1400 claims is the dragster “incorporating some of the most advanced engineering coming to Ford’s foreseeable future powertrains.” At some stage this year the coupe will confirm alone “at drag racing event where followers, media and competitors will get to satisfy the race auto, as very well as see exactly what it’s able of on the asphalt.” Subscribers to MotorTrend On Demand can book an early preview by seeing the exhibit “Hard Mobile” on April 26. 

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