I am trust you’ll get a lot of one dimensional answers here just discussing engine enhancements. If you put on the lightest rim/tire combo available that should definitely help with acceleration
this is an excellent point -Look at the times of performance cars of the 80s Compared to today
I have a 2014 Focus ST 2.0 turbo [Ecoboost] and IMHO it would have trouble beating those numbers by more than a couple of tenths under the conditions specified. Frankly I'd probably have trouble believing those numbers even if I saw the demonstration. I would suspect error or fraud. However: I was almost wrong one time before; so maybe this is the real thing!!! GGG
Unfortunately the 173 lb.-ft torque and 93 kW (125 HP) of the traction motor is not available in the Maverick Hybrid. Those are the ratings of the motor, but the motor is connected to a battery that is only rated for 27kW (36 HP equivalent) continuous output.
There was a motor trend article awhile ago that said the electric motor could make 126 HP because the entire hybrid system (ice /motor generator + battery) can feed it 94kW.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Any power to drive the motor generator is being subtracted from the the ICE power available to the wheels. In addition it would be going through efficiency losses in the mechanical to electrical and then electrical to mechanical conversions.
Sure you're not going to get 126hp from the e motor and 160 from the ICE at the same time. I didn't say you would. I simply said that I had read that the hybrid system can get 126hp out of the e motor (much more than the 36hp you stated).
If you could get more than 191 HP out of the ICE plus traction motor of the Hybrid, then Ford would have rated it higher.
But it absolutely is available in "series hybrid" mode, when ICE generates power for the traction motor. There is a question if Maverick can generate full traction motor power, given it's been upgraded in HF45+.
It will be interesting to see how Ford deals with the higher-capacity traction motor. I don't see both ICE AND HVB feeding the traction motor in the HF45. Under hard acceleration, HVB output goes to 0. The dash has NO power information in series mode operation.
But you can eat your cake in the most favorable place. When I floor it from a stop...
Yeah. I think most slow driving the motor will be fed by the battery when possible. At least from early MPG tests, it appears as though drivers are getting up to 50% "ev" driving (which I assume just means ICE off) in the city. Reviewers have also mentioned how smooth the acceleration/power delivery is on the hybrid, so I assume when you've maxed out the battery-motor power the system slips into series mode to deliver more power through the e motor without having to ramp up the ICE RPMS.
That's pretty good. That's the same as the Honda CR-V with the 1.5L turbo. For comparison, my 2018 Escape with the 2.5L 168 hp and FWD weighs about 100 lbs less than the Maverick hybrid and still only manages about a 9.2 sec 0-60.
I was reading somewhere (don't know on what or which engine but believe on a hybrid) where a tuner had installed a video camera in the floor area and when foot was headed towards pedal he would (when "drag" was selected on a dial") start the ice and rev it up so when pedal was actually pressed max acceleration at full possible power could happen.
