The Ford Mustang Mach-E is now a Guinness World Record holder, setting the new benchmark for the longest distance driven by a production electric vehicle (EV) on a single charge.
Set in the UK by hypermiling experts Kevin Booker and Sam Clarke, the Mustang Mach-E travelled 916.74km before it ran out of charge, beating the existing record – held by an undisclosed Zeekr EV – by 9.12km.
The drive was supported by tyre giant Bridgestone and its fleet management division Webfleet, with the Mustang Mach-E’s 18-inch wheels shod in the company’s low-resistance rubber.
To maximise their chances, the record attempt was undertaken in a single-motor Mustang Mach-E with its largest available battery pack, a 91kWh unit.
While Ford sells this drivetrain combination in Europe with a 600km lab-tested WLTP driving range, the pair were able to stretch out an extra 316km, thanks in part to driving at much lower speeds.
When the Mustang Mach-E eventually ran out of charge, it had been driving for 24 hours, translating to an average speed of no more than 38.2km/h.
Even though its dashboard showed it had run out of battery charge, the Mustang Mach-E continued for another 33.8km before finally coming to a halt.
Rather than confine the drive to private land with no traffic to worry about, it was conducted on public roads in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire, with a mix of urban and rural driving conditions to best reflect the real world.
We’ve seen other carmakers do this before as well, with Chinese brand Nio last year claiming an unofficial EV driving range record after its ET7 – equipped with a 150kWh battery pack – drove 1044km from Zhejiang Province to Fujian Province, at a much higher average speed of 84km/h.
Though the Ford Mustang Mach-E holds the record for the longest driving range for a production EV, the Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX prototype went 1202km from Stuttgart to Silverstone in 2022.
A team of German university students currently holds the EV driving range record with a single-seat experimental project vehicle, which covered 2573.79km on a single charge of its 78kWh battery at an average speed of 26km/h in an aeroplane hanger.
