It’s generally about a battery size that gives at least 100km /60 miles of electric range but under US or is it Californian regs (?), I think the charge sustain is not permitted, an EREV must slowly discharge the battery when the ICE is engaged…   So when you look at the BYD Shark 6, the ICE does indeed drive the generator but there’s still a mechanical drive available to the front wheels above 70 kph, it’s more efficient to that than use the series hybrid  with ICE- generator-drive motor. The old GM Volt used to do similar because of similar reasons.  

Eyes have been opened… The CE1 was developed at roughly 30% of the cost of doing it via Ford’s own engineering. This has to be a major shift in thinking and signals big changes coming for the rest of Ford’s engineering development strategy. Modern vehicle development has become just so expensive  and tied down to supplier based control modules for most things…a big shift away is coming.  

This is an interesting point. What makes an EREV an EREV vs a PHEV? I've had it in my mind that an EREV is distinguished by a larger battery pack, the absence of a hybrid transmission and the presence of a small ICE coupled with a generator. Maybe these lines will become more blurred with future models?

Correct, it replaces say, a once a week five minute gasoline fill up with 30 minutes to one hour at a public charging facility. How that is done is up to the owner. Perhaps the odd splash and go just to keep the battery above 50%.   The beauty of PHEV is if the battery runs flat, you can still drive as a hybrid until able to recharge. It would help if PHEVs are able  to use public fast charging and not limited to just low power home charging which can be a pain in apartment blocks.

What blew my mind is that Ford Equator is supposed to be based on a regionalised version of C2 but the PHEV version has a frame. Man, the flexibility possible with mixing and matching modules and electronics is fantastic. Some of the old perceived limitations of vehicles are now  being challenged by modern thinking…   I’ve been hoping for this for a while but would need a major paradigm shift, Could Equator and Equator Sport be rebranded as Explorer and Explorer Sport? As mentioned earlier Equator and SWB Equator sport are both 76” wide which is similar to Edge and a touch narrower than CD6  Explorer (78.9”) which seems closer to F150/Expedition width of 79.9”. It is possible that a future repositioning of Explorer would improve/ even out product spacing and perhaps benefit and improve sales of 2-row, 3- row mid sizes vs Expedition full……..  

It’s absolutely doable, it just depends on how much inconvenience you’re willing to live with.

JMC-Ford developed a non-PHEV version of the refreshed Territory Hybrid for some export markets. Same basic 148hp 1.5 turbo and 215hp electric motor, but with a smaller 1.8kWh battery. The Philippines is the first market to get this. Looks identical to the non-hybrid model.

Throwing away the legacy Mustang name and styling would be a huge mistake and the overhead of a new brand just isn’t worth it.     If you do want different styling then give it a different model name and/or make it a Lincoln.

I was talking to someone at a store I frequent and they got a Chevy Bolt and still live at home with their parents-they tell me they charge it once a week and it gets them every where they need to go. I'm not sure how far they are from work or if they are going to college, but it shows that if you can live with the inconvenience of charging for 30-60 minutes a week, it is doable  

Nah that wouldn't work at all...the Mustang needs to evolve a bit-adding a Sedan and having the Mach E won't dilute the Brand.