Hybrids are not popular?Ford decided to cancel the Explorer Hybrid in the U.S

Mondo Cars Updated on 2024-01-30

In the face of increasingly stringent environmental regulations, electrification is a common response plan for all car manufacturers at this stage, before the popularization of pure electric vehicles, most of them will increase the number of gasoline-electric hybrid models as a transition, many car manufacturers have recently launched new cars almost all offer hybrid options, but Ford has recently gone the opposite way and decided to cancel the Explorer Hybrid model.

In addition to the Explorer Hybrid, the Lincoln **iator Hybrid of the same group will also be cancelled, but the above two gasoline-electric hybrid models will only be cancelled from the general market, and the police-exclusive Police Interceptor Utility will continue to provide **procurement.

In order to meet the power needs of **, the Police Interceptor Utility is equipped with a 3The 3-liter V6 engine-based gasoline-electric hybrid system can provide 318hp maximum horsepower, and when the car is on standby, it can also use lithium batteries to run the car's electronic and electrical systems, so that you can save money.

From 4 onwards, the explorer will only be equipped with the energy-saving 2The 3-liter quad EcoBoost engine and the **iator are only available with a twin-turbo V6 engine, but in fact, the reduction of these two models is mainly due to the decline in overall sales, and the delivery volume of the Explorer in the third quarter of 2023 is down 116%, and *iator dropped by 42%.

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