The Mustang Mach-E is Ford’s large guess within the electrical automobile world, and to ensure it’s suitably futuristic, the designers selected to not add conventional door handles. It’s a traditional present automobile trick that makes autos look glossy, however the designers nonetheless should discover a solution to let folks get into the automobile.

Ford’s answer are little buttons on the B and C pillars that pop the entrance and rear doorways open, respectively. And whereas the entrance door has slightly deal with that will help you pull it open, the rear doesn’t. As Doug DeMuro explains in his newest video, that’s as a result of Ford’s analysis confirmed folks simply seize the door round its perimeter to open it.

They’re so sure that individuals will simply seize the door that they even added slightly rubber part on the within to be sure you don’t have to the touch naked steel in case it’s very hot or cold out.

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However requiring passengers to achieve between the door and the automobile implies that there’s a threat, even when it’s a small one, that the door will shut on their fingers. So how did Ford cease that from occurring? With slightly kickstand.

Once you press the open door button, the kickstand pops out to stop the door from closing in your fingers. That lets you safely open the door, at which level the kickstand retracts and the door can shut. The entrance door additionally has this operate, presumably as a result of Ford thinks front-seat passengers will even be reaching across the door’s edge to drag it open.

The dearth of door handles comes with one other profit, apart from seems, although. It permits the aspect of the automobile to be completely clean, bettering its drag coefficient and, thus, its vary. With as much as 300 miles of vary, the Mach-E will not be far off the marginally dearer Tesla Mannequin Y, which might go as much as 316 miles per cost.

The door handles — or lack thereof — are simply one of many many quirks that Demuro covers in his evaluation of the Mach-E. In fact he additionally took it out for a spin and located it sporty and likable. Perhaps Ford’s onto one thing right here.