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We ordered ours, a Reserve 203A Hybrid, on March 11th. My dealer said it was scheduled to the week of 5/27. Based on the fact that they have 4 "in Transit" with build dates of 2/2, I don't anticipate actually having ours arrive until late July or early August.

The bigger tire size on your Corsair results in a 3% speedo and odometer error. Going from a 40 to a 50 on the same width on an Aviator would be 7% error. So when your actual speedo reads 60mph you are at 62mph in the corsair, but would be at 64mph in the aviator. My suggestion, if you want taller sidewalls, would be to find a downsize wheel, 19's (245/50R19) or 18's (245/55R18) on the Corsair and 20's (275/50R20) or 18's (275/60R18, +1%) on the Aviator. Or you can take them to the dealership to have the speedo recalibrated for the larger tire size. To check if you are going to have clearance issues, you would need to measure your clearance lock to lock from the tread surface to the nearest contact point with the suspension fully compressed. The biggest tire you could put on would be just less than 2x the smallest clearance. So the stock tires are 31" you would need 1" minimum of clearance to fit a 33" tire (the new one you are looking at) and get it to just barely clear.

I don't think gross efficiency is the goal. The goal is to increase usable power and torque without increasing emissions. Diesel emissions are the big target and currently technology and scrubbing is pretty well maxed out. The logical next step would be hybridization where your diesel engine can be set to run at its min emissions level and you make up the peak torque with a hybrid setup. The other option that may be promising and might make its way into heavy trucking would be diesel-electric systems where you use high torque EM's as your only direct drive (much like a train) and you utilize a much small diesel generator and battery pack (to act as a buffer and capture regen energy). The diesel could then be sized to deliver only the power required during constant load highway power resulting in much more efficient operation (constant power). A diesel-electric train doesn't use a battery, instead driving the electric motors directly from the diesel engine, however the torque control is much more precise with the electric drive and you eliminate failure points on the drive train. A series hybrid gas truck could also replace a diesel setup, providing much better emissions with similar power and torque, while having much lower emissions and maintenance costs.

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What does a CVT have to do with hybrid applications in large vehicles (trucks)? The F-150 hybrid is most definitely not a CVT, and I wouldn't expect a CVT in any other large truck application. I would expect a similar setup to the F-150 hybrid with an EM inline between the ICE and the transmission.

You can't connect your trucks batteries in series, so your only option would be to get a DC to DC converter to step up the voltage from 12V to either 24V or 48V. I would personally just install a 12V to 48V step up converter (can find these on amazon for golf carts or other items) and then wire a 48V charger into that. I am not familiar with the input available for 48V solar systems though.

The bolded is very true, then again I wouldn't be buying an F-150 if I wanted great gas mileage and high efficiency. The large engine hybrids gain a lot of efficiency though when compared to an equivalent power level ICE only system, and that there is the benefit. I get more low end torque, a peak horsepower bump, and an onboard generator, while burning a bit less fuel. I only wish Ford would get a hybrid F-250 package that would pair a slightly more torquey EM (as compared to the F-150) and a 2 to 3 kWh battery to the 7.3l to get gas engine emissions, maintenance, and power with diesel levels of torque. I did notice in the EU document that they will be examining the factors used in the WLTP test and regulations for PHEVs. I wish they would also examine how far off the WLTP is from real world usage on BEV's as well. It is widely understood that the WLTP range numbers for BEV's is pure fantasy, they are even more optimistic than EPA range numbers. All these regulatory testing protocols would benefit from an update that reflects real world driving cycles.

Amazing that so many people want 2 row mid-size SUVs/cross-overs, almost like there are some people that don't need an unusable 3rd row and prefer a more spacious 2nd row instead. Go figure.

So the articles make it sound like PHEV's are bad for the environment, when in reality what the data actually shows is that the regulatory testing for PHEV's is flawed and the real world implementation of the plug-in doesn't match what expectations are. This all goes back to a fundamentally flawed emissions cycle that also affects range publication for BEV's. The testing cycle has too much low speed, low acceleration in it, where as real world city driving is faster acceleration to higher speeds with greater deceleration, mixed with periods of long idling and some highway driving. The highway test still uses lower acceleration to 60 mph where most commonly people are using 75% of throttle to accelerate to 70 mph with 75 mph being a common interstate highway speed. PHEV's are just like regular HEV's in terms of CO2 emissions when people don't plug them in, and may be worse depending on the extra weight being carried around from the larger PHEV battery vs a normal HEV battery. I wish our '24 Nautilus that is on order would have been a PHEV, but am satisfied with it being just a HEV.

Probably because they have some in dealer inventory still sitting around that no one will touch. Likely the -1 on the 200 was the last one left and the factory just took it back. I bet the Viper was carrying an insane dealer markup sitting as a "showpiece" until someone with enough cash decided to finally buy it.

Easier fix would be for Ford to bring back the venting rear side windows and the roll down rear hatch window. I mean if an old 79 Bronco can have a roll down rear window, why can't my 2019 Expedition. The old mini-vans all had manual or power venting rear side windows. Simple solutions to problems that didn't use to exist until we made big boxy SUV's with no venting in the rear.

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Lincoln needs a pickup! 🤣

Prices on Facebook marketplace are still insane. Everyone is pricing their 12 year old vehicle with 200k+ miles and a rebuilt title for $5k or more. Add another thousand if the interior doesn't look like someone died in there and another thousand if the title is clean. Yet my relatively low mile MkC is only worth $11k on trade.

The underlying local news article doesn't even mention if the driver of the Mach-e had Blue Cruise enabled at the time. The only facts were that the driver stated the CR-V was stopped in the middle lane without any lights on at approximately 9:30pm. Given highway speeds of 65 mph, he may not have seen the CR-V in time to avoid hitting it.