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Much, much, much smaller battery

The Taycan's are VERY nice, but take a look at the used prices on the Audi E-tron GT (same car, different body), I couldn't believe how cheap they were!

That was fantastic - thank you for sharing!

Smaller battery should offset the added weight of the ICE components, so I wouldn't worry too much on that.

Ford already fits a 3.5L twin turbo ecoboost or a 5.0L V8 under the hood. Remove the frunk to go back to a standard setup in the front of the truck and put the generator bit in the transmission tunnel and everything fits nice and neat. Shrinking the battery pack would also free up some room.

Yeah, I don't know how the math works unless they drop to a much smaller battery pack (40-60 kwh LFP? - maybe the base Mach-e pack?). With the smaller pack, I don't see how a naturally aspirated V6 engine put out enough juice to keep it charged while delivering enough power. I also have to...

And that is assuming it even comes with a DC fast charging option. It could be limited to L2 charging to keep costs down.

I have been looking at a few different options on exactly this. Do I dump it now before the resale values completely collapse and spare parts are still available? Unfortunately I am still ~$7k upside down on my loan which is a LOT of negative equity to refinance. Do I hold for another year...

Or maybe they just put a ~10kwh battery in it to call it an EREV and effectively run off of the engine.

Why are you assuming such a HUGE battery for the EREV? Ford is making this change to bring down the cost of manufacturing so they can make a profit on each sale. The only way to do that while adding an ICE engine is to substantially shrink the battery. Likely something in the 40kwh to 60kwh...

Can I choose a regulated market where government power is used to protect citizens from the negative externalities of corporate actions.

Yes, but you still have the situation of a dead battery while towing uphill at highway speeds. the generator needs to supply enough power to do that confidently. This was a huge issue on the i3x, and that was a tiny little light weight car.

You are also forgetting the use case for max towing uphill with a dead battery. To be successful, I think you need to support that without a significant loss in performance. That would put the generators max sustained output closer to 300kw (or 400hp)

That is nuts. That is about the same price I am seeing for a 2022 ER Lariat. Great deal for you!

Is the hit in value assumed, or did you see information somewhere. KBB doesn't show much of a change for my 2022 Lariat.

It will have to be either a boosted V6 or a v8 or else you get a huge power drop off when the battery is depleted.

Don't forget the size of the engine that will be needed to meet full power demand when the battery is drained. There can likely be some buffer by load spreading, but I would think they would need at least either the Coyote V8 (boosted)? or the 3.5L twin turbo Ecoboost. We have 580HP and 775...

Well - I guess I will change my answer to Existence. Existing would be a great feature.

What kills me the most is that plenty of data shows that the vast majority of people who get plug in hybrids never actually charge them and they get horrible efficiency toting around a heavy battery that is effectively never used. I suspect that will be the case for many of these EREV...

100% agreed. Also, the climates doesn't have another 5 years for us to move backwards.