2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E Gains Battery Capacity

• Ford has released details for the 2022 Mustang Mach-E.

• It receives updates to its battery pack, pricing, colors, and equipment.

• The 2022 Mach-E is available to order now, but deliveries won't start until February 2022.

The Ford Mustang Mach-E, our EV of the Year award winner, is receiving a few updates for 2022. Along with pricing adjustments for some models and tweaks to the color palette, the most notable change is an increase in usable battery capacity that should boost its range. The standard battery pack goes from 68.0 to 70.0 kWh of usable capacity, while the optional extended range pack increases from 88.0 to 91.0 kWh.

Ford says that the EPA isn't retesting the 2022 Mach-E, so the official figures won't change from the current model, which ranges from 211 miles for the standard range AWD model up to 305 miles for the RWD California Route 1 model. But based on the capacity increase, we would expect the updated 2022 model equivalent to the 2021 AWD extended range car we tested to go an extra 8 miles in our 75-mph real-world highway test. The 2021 model achieved 250 miles in that test, compared with an EPA-rated range of 270 miles. We look forward to running a 2022 model in the same test to see how it performs.

We asked Ford if it's possible that these battery updates could be pushed to existing 2021 Mach-E models via over-the-air updates and will update this story when we get more information.