Ford provided some light relief from the doom and gloom of COVID-obsessed 2020 with the Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, an electric drag strip weapon that could storm down a quarter mile in just 8.128 seconds, by which time it had hit almost 172 mph (277 km/h). Now Ford is back with even more electric horses and it wants to take a big bite out of that time.

The new car is called the Mustang Super Cobra Jet 1800, and you can probably already guess from the name that its dual-motor drivetrain produces a solid 1,800 hp (1,825 PS), along with an unspecified amount of torque that we can assume far exceeds the 1,100 lb-ft (1,491 Nm) produced by its predecessor.

Although the Mustang is an EV, it’s a classic-shape pony car, and not based on the electric Mustang Mach-E. It’s also a proper steel car with a full unibody shell, not some carbon-fiber lookalike draped over a lightweight spaceframe chassis, but it’s a one-off and definitely not for road use. The other thing to know is that while the 1800 has two individual motors, it runs its power to the rear wheels only.

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Much like the original Super Cobra Jet Mustangs of the late 1960s were Cobra Jet models fitted with equipment like an oil cooler, steep rear-axle ratio and stronger engine components to make them quicker on the strip, so the 2023 car is an upgrade on the Cobra Jet 1400 of a few years back.

Ford is slightly vague about exactly what’s changed, but claims upgrades to the chassis, powertrain and electronic control systems, including a new Liberty transmission, larger Mickey Thompson drag radials and a lighter battery that contributes to a reduction of “hundreds of pounds” of weight versus the original 1400 configuration.

The Cobra Jet 1400’s 8.128-second quarter-mile time still stands as a record for a full-bodied EV, but Ford hopes to beat that at an unnamed NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) event later this year, and set 0-60 mph (0-96 km/h) and two-wheel drive 0-60 mph records for electric cars in the process.