Love it or hate it the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E took home Car and Driver’s inaugural Electric Vehicle of the Year Award, adding another coveted honor to its trophy case and beating overall top-rated EV competitors along the way.
Car and Driver put 11 of the best electric vehicles through rigorous testing over a three-week period, including a 1,000-mile road trip to evaluate each in real-world conditions. Mustang Mach-E took the No. 1 spot.
“We felt that if a carmaker was looking to convert people from EV skeptics to EV evangelists, there’s not a better vehicle out there than the Mustang Mach-E,” said Sharon Carty, Car and Driver editor-in-chief. “It’s a familiar shape and size of crossover. It’s in the sweet spot of what Americans love. It’s beautiful. It’s a design that gets noticed. It has a range and charging speed that is very competitive.”
“Mustang Mach-E is the start of what we can do to compete in the EV revolution,” said Darren Palmer, Ford general manager, battery electric vehicles. “Its continued success in the form of happy customers, sales and awards are all signs of the momentum we are building. Accolades like the Car and Driver Electric Vehicle of the Year are particularly rewarding for the team who designed this performance battery electric vehicle to be truly fun to drive. It can only get better as we continue to learn from and grow with our customers.”
Other contenders include Audi e-tron, Kia Niro, Nissan Leaf Plus, Polestar 2, Porsche Taycan 4S PBP, Tesla Model 3 Performance, Tesla Model S Long Range Plus, Tesla Model Y Performance, Volkswagen ID.4 and Volvo XC40 Recharge. Car and Driver employed instrumented testing, subjective evaluation and side-by-side comparison in both practicality and entertainment value.
The 2021 Mustang Mach-E has claimed a number of other awards including Car and Driver’s Editor’s Choice Award earlier this year, plus the Cars.com Eco-Friendly Car of the Year Award, AutoGuide’s Utility of the Year, Green Vehicle of the Year and Autoweek’s Car Buyer’s Award.
“We could have made a boring electric vehicle, a compliance vehicle that looks like a dust buster,” said Palmer. “But we decided people need an EV with soul. So we built them an all-electric Mustang SUV that is disrupting the status quo in electric vehicles. And the Mustang Mach-E GT and GT Performance Edition are still to come.”
The full story on Car and Driver’s very first Electric Vehicle of the Year can be found here and in the new July/August issue of the magazine, available now everywhere magazines are sold.
The electric cars they can keep. There will be some that will break their neck to buy so they can brag.when you buy these cars you are helping creajob losses in the thousands an im not supporting it america will be gone
And still boring.
Been in a dual motor Tesla. It’s fast, but like driving an elevator.
EV’s are always going to be just an appliance.
Most buying an electric car will have a car to trade or sell first right? So what happens to that car? Its still out there burning the same gas as it was before. Buying the electric only adds another car to the roads and if you are concerns about the environment, think of all the energy used to build that car. Factories have to work to produce it so there is fall out from that.
2) what happens to the batteries ones they will not recharge anymore? (landfill)
3) if your old gas car was ready for the wreckers, they will strip it and resell that gas motor so it’s still burning the same gas as before.
4) if you run out of gas, CAA can bring you some gas to get to a station. If you run out of power, they cannot bring it in a gas can. That car now has to be towed and charged overnight so you would have to check into a hotel at 100’s of dollars per night until your car says it’s ready to go again.
so where’s the benefit? Id like to know.
added bonus point: lets say its your first car, which I don’t know anyone who buys 100k cars as their first car (or at all) so you save $2000.00 a year in gas but when those batteries will no longer charge, Ive heard batteries for cheaper electric cars can cost upwards of 20,000.00 to replace. Hate to think what they would cost to replace on this car.