...but never learned to do well. Stick with just the burgers, Ford.  

Most conventional PHEVs provide plenty of range for routine urban/city trips without the efficiency and towing shortcomings. Even so, buyers strongly prefer conventional HEVs and I don't see that trend being changed by EREVs unless the heavy hand of government regulation somehow forces it.

Yea, thanks for the clarification. When growth rates for BEV pick up again, the automakers who invested in improving their products and processes and in makin' the most of their battery production capacity (whether for powering data centers or their BEV) will be in a good position. That's why I'm cautiously optimistic about Ford over the next 3 or 4 years. 

If it is option #2, that could allow the Maverick to slightly downsize in a next generation. Thus allowing it to keep its lower price. 

Yea, I agree with the GWM head honcho on the technical disadvantages of gasoline powered “range extenders” for EV.   Still, the EV market has room for both pure EV and range extender EV. Customers will have to decide if the added complexity, cost, and efficiency losses of the latter are worth it to get the extra range.

Just because Americans don't like small cars/CUVs doesn't mean Ford should deprive the rest of the world of affordable vehicles. The rest of the world combined is a big market. Toyota for example doesn't sell B-segment cars/CUVs in the US and Canada anymore, but it sells them everywhere because this is a popular/preferred vehicle size.  PS: Apparently Asian brands have the capability of offering both hot dogs and burgers. Something Ford could easily do before... before they made bad decisions that forced them to tighten their belts. Then they made more bad decisions by launching VW-based EVs that are doing much worse than the core car models they killed off in Europe.   

Not declining, just not growing as fast...

Ford finds itself with massive battery production capacity and declining interest in BEVs…..

I honestly have no clue which way Ford is thinking with the new affordable truck. It’s just me looking at the new vehicle from two perspectives and I’m happy for people to disagree and suggest better way for Ford to achieve its objectives   To clarify my two perspectives: 1.  “F100” would tap into all existing F150 supplier and alloy cab production in a slightly narrower truck but still wider and possibly lighter than Ranger. F100 is perhaps a name that better resonates with North American buyers?   2. A slightly bigger Maverick?  either an evolved C2 Maverick or ICE/EREV version of CE1 pickup with CE1’s construction process and gigacastings, front, middle and back to produce a way more efficiently designed mid-sized truck  

GWM rejects range extenders as “corner cutting” - launches world’s first AI full‑powertrain platform “Guiyuan” TLDR EREV's long energy transmission chain results in layered efficiency losses, especially during medium- and high-speed operation. Internal testing shows that range-extender systems can be at least 13 percent less efficient than direct-drive powertrains in these scenarios.  GWM described the approach as “corner-cutting” from a technical perspective and “a compromise on the essence of mobility,”