Plug and go: The Ford Mustang Mac-E is suitable with the Evie charging community’s friction-reducing Autocharge cost facility.
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The supply, which Ford Australia says “eliminates charging doubts” and reduces the “problem” of electrical car possession, helps encourage entry to the nationwide Evie charging community’s 270 Autocharge-enabled quick charging areas.
Autocharge is claimed to simplify car charging periods by initiating a charging session as quickly as a car is plugged in and debiting the related account routinely.
“Ford and Evie are working collectively to make life simpler for our EV prospects,” stated Ford Australia common supervisor of electrical autos Myles Hartley.
“Merely drive up, plug in, and go seize a espresso. We wish to make the possession expertise as straightforward as doable for Ford prospects on the primary steps of their electrification journey.”
The Ford Mustang Mach-E, which is priced from $64,990 to $97,375 plus on-road prices, is the slowest-selling car within the present Ford Australia portfolio with year-to-date deliveries of simply 612 models (not together with part-year gross sales numbers achieved by the now-defunct Puma and Escape SUVs).
Gross sales of standard (petrol-powered) Mustang fashions whole 866 (down 40.7 per cent), whereas the Everest massive SUV has achieved 21,281 gross sales to the tip of October (up 74.6 per cent), Ranger 4×2 gross sales are at 4091 models (down 6.7 per cent), and Ranger 4×4 gross sales of 49,028 models are up 9.2 per cent.
The F-150 is on 1881 models and Transit mild industrial fashions reached a cumulative 4151 gross sales to the tip of October this 12 months.
In all, Ford Australia has offered a complete of 83,145 new autos to the tip of October (2024), up 19.1 per cent on the identical interval in 2023. The importer at present ranks in second place on the Australian gross sales ladder behind Toyota.