Ford CEO Mark Area has told that Ford is planning to build a hybrid F-series pickup within the following four years. While this is being reported as information by many outlets, it’s not really news; it was revealed back in 2013 when Ford and Toyota chose to dissolve a partnership on the rear-wheel-drive hybrid systems that would power such vehicles and also SUVs.
The sound byte that has everybody’s excitement emerged while Shapiro as well as Fields discussed Ford’s $4.5 billion financial investment in amazed vehicles, and also just how Ford will take care of the difference between the relatively small number of amazed automobiles Ford currently markets and also the large variety of F-series pick-ups the firm churns out. When pressed by Shapiro about whether Ford would certainly ever develop an electrical pickup, Area claimed, “We do have plans to have a rear-wheel-drive hybrid vehicle by the end of the decade. Indeed, we’re functioning on electrified F-series, and also it’s really around a traditional hybrid.”.
Ford’s won’t be the first hybrid pickups and also SUVs the world has actually ever seen, of course. GM offered hybrid variations of the previous-generation Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra as well as Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon/Cadillac Escalade starting in 2008. Ultimately, the GM vehicles were phased out as a result of reduced need, go figure. It will interest see exactly how Ford’s F-series hybrid will certainly make out in this even more electric-friendly world.
