WATCH: Is There Really An Electric Bronco In The Works?

Electrified Ford Broncos are coming—that much has been known since May of 2019. It was then that Ford CEO Jim Hackett told investors the company is "adding hybrid electrics to high-volume, profitable vehicles like Explorer, and the new exciting Bronco." Hackett's statement is seemingly bolstered by a possible leak of the 2021 Bronco's gauge cluster, showing graphics that would have no place on a purely internal-combustion vehicle.


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CANADIANCOMMENTS - 7/16/2020 7:22:35 PM

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A Bronco is precisely the type of vehicle that should NOT have a digital gauge or haptic touch surfaces or anything that could break. As far as it being a hybrid, I would have passed, but this may have been needed for corporate fuel economy numbers. Hybrids on the used market are also an easy pass if you ask most mechanics. I would add digital dash /centre stack cars to that list as well.

MDarringer - 7/16/2020 7:36:32 PM

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Adding hybridization to pickups suvs, crossovers, and minivans would have been brilliant 10 years ago but now it's passe.

vdiv - 7/16/2020 8:21:53 PM

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That makes no sense, the technology now is better developed and cheaper, it makes even more sense now.

MDarringer - 7/17/2020 12:32:56 AM

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On the contrary. At this point it's either ICE or EV. Hybrid isn't the benefit it once was. EV technology is advancing so quickly that the hybrid is most decidedly passe. At this point if you're going to go hybrid, you might as well pony up and go EV.

ctsang - 7/17/2020 10:47:48 AM

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RIP if not EV

ricks0me - 7/17/2020 6:56:28 PM

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vdiv: I would advise against hybrid technology for the following reason; cost of repair. For me, it would be 100% EV or 100% ICE.