There's a lot of interest in cross-breeds in the dog world. The cockapoo, springador, puggle and labsky are some of the animals that are included. You get a kind of genetic Goldilocks breed with the best characteristics from both parents: the loving loyalty of a retriever, for example.
Maybe what is true in nature is also true in automotive engineering. It is a purpose-built electric car that was built from the ground up.
The ’67 is a mixture of two very different genes: It has the classic looks of the 1967 Ford mustang fastback, but under the skin it uses the hardware and software of EV.
There is an electric van and a mustang. Arrival was founded in London in 2015. Sverdlov had a classic car that was leaking oil and broke down. He decided to create a spinoff company that could apply his own modular EV hardware to unreliable classics.
Vadim Shagaleev, who had previously run a video-on-demand business, was brought in to head up Charge Cars. The first prototype Shagaleev chose was his favorite classic, the mustang. After buying an original 1967 car and considering an electric conversion, he realized it wasn't going to meet his expectations. His classic car was heavy, clunky, and full of rust.
The company in the US making brand-new, officially licensed Ford mustang body shells was discovered by Shagaleev. Charge's new EV could be designed on a blank sheet of paper.
Mark Roberts, the former head of design operations at McLaren, was hired by Shagaleev after he produced a proof-of-concept prototype. Roberts joined as chief creative officer in 2020 and brought with him a lot of experience as well as bringing in other former colleagues who brought a very McLaren-like approach to the Charge project. Roberts says that it is a level of technical excellence. We cleaned up the design and made the lines flow better to surface this car. We used carbon fiber to blend the panels into the steel shell.
The design team added contemporary touches like flush door handles. The result is a modern, minimalist and pure design that retains all the aggression and muscularity of the original 1960s design. When you see it on the road, it is surprisingly small but has a large presence.
The film is about George Williams and Charge cars.
Skin-deep styling.
The car is completely different under the skin than it is on the outside. A gaping hole has been engineered into the floor as a result of the stiffening and strengthened steel body shell. The structural floor is made of a rigid, carbon-fiber tray and bolted in underneath the Arrival-sourced 64kWh battery. The range is thought to be 200 miles.
The front and rear subframes are attached to the shell to give the car a total output of 400 kilowatts and four-wheel drive. The suspension is brand-new and the car has AP Racing brakes.
The inside of the door has been completely reinvented. There's a three-spoke steering wheel that evokes the original mustang's, but otherwise it's ultramodern inside, with sports seats, a streamlined dashboard, and two screens, one in the binnacle and the other in the middle.
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