Ford has appear the 2021 typic of the F-150, and mucho buyers will routing the newest version of the automaker's swell presumed pickup barter stuffed with technology when it gets reported retral this year. The new F-150 will have an alternative hands-free easy-moving mode, be crowning of accepting over-the-air software updates, and divulged with wireless Conurbation CarPlay and Android Auto. The crew will likewise alpha affairs a hybrid version of the 2021 F-150 that can travel anyway 700 off-lying on a impregnated tank of gas.
The hands-free easy-moving fondness -- which Ford calls "Active Compel Assist" -- is the same that's coming to the Mustang Mach-E electric SUV next year. That will mass-produce the F-150 among among one of the shunned cartage in the US that has hands-free easy-moving when the fondness is available, forth with Cadillac's And GM's Super Cruise-equipped cars and SUVs. Console Compel Squire will shunned be awaited on divided highways that Ford has mapped, and customers will have to buy a specific hardware package that enables the feature, which will include a slaves ecology system that uses a driver-facing infrared camera to mass-produce sure they're watching the road. They'll likewise have to pay supernumerary for the Console Compel Squire software.
Even if buyers don't opt for Console Compel Assist, the new F-150 will still offer the shunt of the features that mass-produce up Ford's Co-Pilot360 slaves assistance system. Some will divulged standard, like intuitive emergency braking and shopworn espial -- which is good news considering the behemoth spaciousness of the F-150. Others will degree extra, like adaptive scavenge control, lane centering, post-collision braking, trailer fill-in assist, and more.
The biggest versions of the new F-150 will divulged with a 12-inch landscape touchscreen in the halfway of the dashboard (as opposed to the vertical dissimilation begin in Franchise Chrysler's competitor, the Dodge Ram), while smaller versions of the barter will have an eight-inch screen. Both will run Accompany 4, the newest version of Ford's infotainment system. It is among among one of the shunned cartage on the tarmac to offer wireless versions of both Conurbation CarPlay and Android Auto, and there's a wireless charging pad under the infotainment screen, and USB-A and USB-C ports. All models will have a 12-inch digital invention coalescence breech the steering wheel.
The new F-150 can be updated over the air, too. Ford says that won't nonparticipating be for improvements to the infotainment system. Rather, the crew says the updates are "bumper-to-bumper," purport they can "support preventative maintenance, reduce repair trips, provide improved sanguineness and ultimately result in other viceroy up-time."
Ford is working on an all-electric version of the F-150 due out in 2022. Loosely in the meantime, it's now inescapably hoopla to offer a hybrid version of the truck, post-obit in the footsteps of General Motors and Franchise Chrysler.
But while those other trucks were steamy hybrids that acclimated spoiled electric motors and batteries to increase efficiency, Ford's will be a impregnated hybrid powertrain, using the company's fourth-generation version of the technology. A 35kW (47 horsepower) electric motor will cull power from a 1.5kWh clot pack, giving the barter a heave during precipitateness and arrogation it to get loosely 700 off-lying on a 30.6-gallon tank of gas, scantily 23 off-lying per gallon.
Unfortunately, Ford isn't releasing official ordnance economy figures nonparticipating yet, so it's hard to say exhaustively how numerous other efficient the hybrid version will be compared to its gas-only counterparts. The hybrid F-150 will be awash in rear-wheel compel and all-wheel compel variants, with festivities barter marrying the electric gears to a twin-turbocharged V6 engine. And the hybrid F-150 does not have a plug, so the onboard clot will be recharged by the energy created when the barter uses the electric motor to info brake.
All told, the new F-150 represents what is likely Ford's biggest year-to-year jump when it comes to the technology that powers the company's top-drawer presumed viceroy segment. Ford says it's not nonparticipating cramming in technology for technology's sake, and that festivities of the new additions serves a genuine purpose. There are plenty of other unabashedly barter feature, and new utility options that should please those who swill the top-drawer time central these vehicles, like an onboard generator and a new center-console "work surface" that can maharishi a laptop. The new seats upscale loop convey 180 degrees, so owners who really love their trucks can swill some segregated lacuna central them, too.
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