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Originally Posted by rmay635703
It would take 5 minutes for Ford to make a PHEV Maverick given it shares a drivetrain with the Escape PHEV.
Originally Ford was to make a PHEV Maverick sometime in the next couple years, instead they have Pivoted to this
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More like thousands of hours of engineering and test time, millions of dollars and 18 months. For reference it once took me 8 months to switch from bolt / nut / washers to a flange bolt and flange nut because we had to do FMEA, shaker testing, and track and road testing to prove the new combination wouldn't shake loose over time. (A flange nut and a bolt with washer will have different clamp loads at the same tightening torque)
People think dropping a corporate drivetrain into another variant is quick and easy - it isn't. Yes, it should work but you have to test and prove that is DOES work.