---
title: "2021 Ford Mach-E Weighs Up to 1,065 Pounds More Than the Heaviest Mustang"
description: "America's porky car."
date: "2020-02-18"
modified: "2020-02-18"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/32262/2021-ford-mach-e-weighs-up-to-1065-pounds-more-than-the-heaviest-mustang"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "Ford News"
  - "News"
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tags:
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "Ford"
  - "Mustang Mach-E"
  - "suv/crossover"
---

# 2021 Ford Mach-E Weighs Up to 1,065 Pounds More Than the Heaviest Mustang

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Ford's insistence that the [2021 Mustang Mach-E](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/31073/the-all-electric-2021-ford-mustang-mustang-mach-e-suv-is-here>) is worthy of wearing the historic pony car nameplate [doesn't sit well with some customers](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/31154/47-percent-of-people-wish-the-2021-ford-mustang-mach-e-had-a-different-name-survey>), and according to weight specifications released by Ford at the model's launch in London, its curb weight may also push the limits of what you can call a pony.

According to [*Autocar*](<https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-la-motor-show/new-ford-mustang-mach-e-ev-makes-european-debut-london>), Ford declared at the Mach-E event that the pon-*E* car's weight will range from 4,394 to 4,890 pounds. Compared to the heaviest [2020 Mustang](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/31921/texas-police-department-buys-2020-ford-mustang-with-money-from-speeding-tickets>), which itself is no lightweight at 3,825 pounds, the Mach-E tips the scales at 569 to 1,065 pounds plumper than the heaviest Mustang.

Some of this weight may come from the Mach-E's Global Electrified 2 (GE2) platform, which is loosely based on the C2 platform used by the Focus hatchback and Kuga CUV, though most of it should come from the Mach-E's battery pack. Mounted in the floor, it lowers the E-CUV's center of gravity, so despite the tall curb weight and roofline, the Mach-E should corner like a lighter vehicle.

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Weight in the two-ton-plus neighborhood is far from unheard-of for electric vehicles. Every model in Tesla's lineup, for example, can be ordered in a specification that exceeds 4,000 pounds, and its heaviest product, the Model X crossover, comes in at about 5,500 pounds, give or take. When its smaller sibling the [Model Y](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/32019/the-tesla-model-y-may-be-coming-sooner-as-musk-announces-q4-blowout>) arrives, it will likely occupy a weight class roughly congruent to that of the Mach-E.

Assuming the heaviest Mach-E is the 459-horsepower GT Performance Edition model, which will tout a bulky 98.8-kWh battery, we can triangulate the fastest Mach-E's power-to-weight ratio to be similar to that of the [Porsche Macan Turbo](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/29612/2020-porsche-macan-turbo-ripped-looks-updated-tech-and-standard-434-hp>). But because the Mach-E produces significantly more torque—612 pound-feet of it—its zero-to-60 time of somewhere in the three-second range pushes it closer to the Cayenne Turbo territory, around the 3.6-second mark.

2021 Mustang Mach-Es are already in production in Mexico, though Ford doesn't plan to deliver the first customer cars until "late 2020." Come early 2021, deliveries of base Select and upscale California Route 1 trims will also begin. GT models will ride their coattails to reach the roads in the Spring of next year.

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

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