The 37-mpg hybrid model of the 2024 Ford Maverick is not the most cost effective model within the lineup. The turbo-4 non-hybrid is now the bottom engine.

In accordance with Ford, the 2024 Maverick XL begins at $24,995, together with the $1,595 vacation spot cost, whereas the Maverick Hybrid XL begins at $26,495. That is successfully a $1,500 surcharge for the Maverick Hybrid over the turbo-4.

It provides as much as $5,005 greater than the 2022 Maverick hybrid value when it was launched—or 23% greater than two mannequin years in the past. However till anybody else enters the market, Ford offers the one truck that is near compact within the U.S.

2024 Ford Maverick preview

As automakers scale up the manufacturing of hybrid tech, it turns into cheaper to make, whereas the mileage features it permits turns into an operating-cost no-brainer for patrons. 

So argues Toyota, which has step by step made hybrid powertrains normal on a variety of fashions just like the Sienna minivan, Venza crossover, and Crown sedan. Toyota has managed to supply a number of completely different hybrids with 40 mpg or extra and AWD at lower than $30,000.

And that gave the impression to be the place Ford was headed with a few of its fashions just like the Mexico-built Ford Maverick compact pickup, too, which rolled out two years in the past with the hybrid model as normal.

However these hybrid economies of scale do not look like occurring at Ford in the identical method. Maverick hybrid manufacturing was very restricted within the 2022 mannequin 12 months, with Ford citing the worldwide semiconductor scarcity. However at the moment Ford gave loads of indications that it supposed to scale up availability of the hybrid variations later. Stories additionally indicated that Ford misgauged curiosity within the Maverick hybrid and easily hadn’t deliberate for that stage of demand. 

Ford Maverick Hybrid underhood

For 2024, Ford as soon as once more says that it’ll construct as many as it will possibly to satisfy demand, however between the strains, the corporate hasn’t made any daring strikes to unencumber its hybrid-production tangle—and it not says it’s going to get any higher.

“Capability constraints on batteries for the hybrid proceed to be a problem,” Ford spokesperson Daybreak McKenzie mentioned to Inexperienced Automotive Stories. “This new providing technique will assist us higher handle buyer orders and accommodate all packages that use this engine (Maverick, Escape, Kuga).”

Ford declined to touch upon whether or not this has any influence on the discharge of a Bronco Sport Hybrid, which the corporate has hinted previously is a chance.

2023 Ford Maverick

As earlier than, the 2024 Ford Maverick is anticipated to attain EPA rankings of 42 mpg metropolis, 33 freeway, 37 mixed. That tops all different gasoline-fueled pickups in effectivity. Non-hybrid Mavericks get 23 mpg metropolis, 30 freeway, 26 mixed with front-wheel drive or 22/29/25 mpg with AWD. 

With 191 hp mixed from its hybrid system pairing a 2.5-liter inline-4 engine and 94-kw electrical motor, the Maverick hybrid isn’t fast. However it will possibly carry a quarter-ton payload and may tow as much as a ton—a lot, actually, for a few jet-skis, a small tenting trailer, or all of your landscaping wants. 

The hybrid Maverick has at all times been front-wheel-drive solely. If you would like all-wheel drive, it comes solely with the two.0-liter turbo-4, making 250 hp and paired with an 8-speed computerized transmission. 

At 199.7 inches lengthy and 68.7 inches excessive, the Maverick isn’t practically as small because the Rangers of a technology or two in the past, however it’s sufficiently small to simply slot in most garages, the place Ford’s F-150 and even some Rangers shall be challenged.

2023 Ford Maverick

The Maverick can also be provided in a mid-range XLT model, costing $27,910 for the non-hybrid or $29,410 for the hybrid, and now together with a modular bedliner. A top-of-the-line Lariat begins at $35,730 for the hybrid or $36,450 for the non-hybrid (AWD included), and it will get a regular active-safety suite together with blind-spot displays, adaptive cruise management, and rear parking sensors.