Ford Rethinking it's Hybrid Effort According to CFOHere is the thing and been argued here ad infinitum-adding a hybrid to something that is say the size of an Edge or larger isn't going make a "huge" improvement in fuel savings.
Just using the Toyota Crown as an example, the difference is about $500 bucks a year ($9.61 worth of gas a week) what in gas between the non-hybrid and hybrid versions, using Fuelecomy.gov estimates. And why using MPG as a metric has its own issues becuase an increase from 10 to 25MPG is big but a improvement to 50 MPG isn't as great
That is the reason why Ford has positioned powerboost transmissions as a power adder and other things, including slightly better fuel economy. Smaller products get better gas mileage, but they also give up performance due to the different Atkinson cycle engines they use that is normally helped (performance made up) by the drive motors from the Hybrid. That wouldn't really work that well in say something like the Ranger or F-150 that might have to do "real" work vs say the Maverick that would be doing lightweight duty stuff.
The transition to EVs is still coming, just its going to take longer then what some people expected. Ford doesn't really need to spend more money on additional ICE products when they pretty much have everything they need to cover the ICE lineup out or almost out. Hybrids and more so PHEVs will help ease some peoples apherenction with EVs too.Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:11:56 +0000
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