Coming off on podcast 1895, the Mustang Mackey Rally, the Lotus EMAIA, and the UK's largest EV charging hub.

Stick around, I'll tell you more.

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I'm Martin Lee, and I go through every EV story, so you don't have to. We go live at 5pm UK, midday Eastern,

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them by clicking on a link in the show notes. We'll start with the Mustang Mac E Rally. It's Ford's nod to the Focus

RS legacy. The MacE Rally channels the essence of the now discontinued Focus RS, aiming to

outshine its current top dog, the Mac E GT performance. Same horsepower, more torque.

Its design, which is a fusion of the Focus RS kind of rear, big rear spoiler and the Mackie

details, like some different body mouldings, a black painted steel roof, rally-inspired fog lights,

like I say, 480 horsepower from the same motor, but more torque.

And so with the twin electric motors tailored for gravel, dirt, even a specialized rally track

built at their Michigan site to fine tune this vehicle.

It's all about how they use that power and how you get it down onto the

gravel onto the track. If this vehicle, it's a very specialist kind of vehicle, but if this is for

you, you'll love the revamped suspension, 20mills of extra ride height, magna ride shocks, new springs,

bigger front brembo brakes, 15.8 inch front discs.

It's about an inch and a half larger than the current Mac E's with the rainbow red calipers looking so good in these pictures.

They're targeting 250 miles of range from the 91 kilowatt-hour battery pack.

So like I say, same horsepower, but boosting on the torque with a rally sport drive mode for off-road power, big slides, better throttle response when you're off-road and rugged terrains.

Mackey Rally has some big 19-inch rally-style wheels with Michelin Cross-Clamet 2 tires, more protective features like the motors have shields. There's some

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