![]() (Official EPA ratings for range and MPGe aren’t yet available.) There’s not much space for more battery, which leaves the estimated 18-mile electric-only range at the bottom of today’s plug-in hybrid charts. ![]() Then there’s the pack size and placement itself. Its staggering curb weight-batteries and full array of luxury features included-of 5,673 pounds blunts a serious efficiency play as much as its rorty twin-turbo V-6. That’s all well, but the Aviator battles a couple of factors in its posit as a green machine. Or, it lets the Aviator go electric-only in some conditions. The combination nets the Aviator Grand Touring some 494 hp and an awesome 630 lb-ft of torque, and strong acceleration to 60 mph in about six seconds. Here a 75-kw electric motor assists the twin-turbo V-6 that generates 400 horsepower when it stands alone in non-hybrid Aviators. The 2020 Aviator Grand Touring has a much bigger (13.6 kwh) battery pack than the 1.5-kwh one used in the non-plug-in hybrid Explorer. ![]() It’s an architecture that will spawn a generation of new vehicles, so don’t be surprised to see a plug-in Mustang, or at least a hybrid, from the same platform soon. ![]() The Aviator joins the Ford Explorer on a new rear-drive architecture that’s been planned with electrification in mind, with some battery-pack space beneath the rear passenger floor. Aviator hybrid performance: It’s (slightly) electric ![]()
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