Smoking: New tech lets Ford's clean electric cars can burn rubber
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Ford has filed a patent application for a feature that would allow all-wheel-drive electric cars to perform standing burnouts with either the front or rear tires.
The conventional Ford Mustang is offered with a feature called "line lock" that applies just the front brakes, which allows the rear tires to spin while the car stays in place. Gary Gastelu is Fox News Digital's automotive editor.
This can usually be achieved with a powerful rear-wheel-drive car by lightly holding the brake pedal while the rear wheels overcome their brakes, but the system makes it easier to do, both for fun and to warm the tires for better grip before making a run at the drag strip.
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