Hybrid PowerBoost V6 for new P702 2021 Ford F-150 | Automotive Industry News

New F-a hundred and fifty also gets around-the-air updates and Ford’s SYNC 4

Ford has revealed the new, 2021 model year F-a hundred and fifty. Production will not get started until September and the media preview function saw no firm information about engines and gearboxes, with the exception of what the company is calling three.5L PowerBoost, a gasoline-electrical engine and motor combination offered with RWD or 4 wheel drive.

The three.five-litre V6 is linked to a SelectShift-branded ten-velocity automatic transmission, even though the 35 kilowatt (47 horsepower) motor is built-in into the transmission and is meant to supply not only more torque but the ability to be utilized to demand applications or something else.

The generator is known as Pro Energy Onboard and has an output of two.4 kW or an optional 7.two kW. There are sockets in the cabin as well as up to 4 cargo mattress-mounted one hundred twenty V twenty amp retailers. Additional, trucks specified with the 7.two kW possibility have a 240 volt thirty amp socket.

An additional part of the hybrid system is regenerative braking. This harvests in any other case lost kinetic energy and outlets it in a one.five kWh battery positioned less than the auto which signifies no cargo or inside space is sacrificed.

Ford claims it expects the EPA will price the hybrid powertrain as featuring up to seven-hundred miles and at least 12,000 lbs of highest towing capability.

Alternatively than being a standalone variant, the hybrid is to be offered for all six trim levels: XL, XLT, Lariat, King Ranch, Platinum and Confined. Moreover, there are three cab kinds and thirteen wheel options (17 to 22 inches) as well as 11 grille options.

Even although the new truck appears to be a whole lot like the previous a person, each and every a person of the once more aluminium panels is contemporary despite the fact that the 2021 model uses a revamped variation of the thirteenth generation’s architecture.

On the within, there is an eight-inch touchscreen on decrease model grades and 12-inch monitor for extra costly variants. The optional Max Recline Seats (King Ranch, Platinum, and Confined) fold flat to just about one hundred eighty degrees, letting driver and/or passenger to snooze in the truck.

Production of the 2021 F-a hundred and fifty had been scheduled to get started at Dearborn Truck on 17 August. Because of to COVID-19, this turned 28 September and now, 12 Oct.

As well as develop at the web site in Michigan around Ford’s world headquarters, Kansas City Assembly Plant will also manufacture the new model. This facility, which is in Claycomo, Missouri, should really get started sequence production on 9 November (soon after two before dates in September, then Oct, have been cancelled).

New editions of the F-Sequence Major Duty trucks are not part of the range: their replacements are likely however a year absent. The similar applies to the F-a hundred and fifty Raptor, which will not be replaced until the 2022 model year. The rugged Raptor will will need to presented a major electrical power and torque improve for it to stand a likelihood of competing with FCA’s imminent 2021 Ram TRX (Tyrannosaurus rex).