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Ford, Toyota Team Up on Hybrid Pickups

Ford and Toyota will work together on a hybrid drivetrain for pickup  trucks and SUVs, allowing them to more quickly and affordably create  technology that meets strict new fuel economy standards.

 

The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding today agreeing to build a hybrid drivetrain we’ll see in Ford and Toyota trucks by the end of the decade, when full-size trucks and SUVs must begin significantly increasing their fuel efficiency.

 

“This agreement brings together the capability of two global leaders  in hybrid vehicles and hybrid technology to develop a better solution  more quickly and affordably for our customers,” Derrick Kuzak, Ford vice  president of global product development, said in a statement.

 

The partnership comes as federal regulators finalize plans to  increase corporate average fuel economy standards to 54.5 mpg by the  2025 model year. That’s twice the current requirement, an increase  automakers will meet only by building smaller, lighter cars and  embracing battery electric and gas-electric drivetrains.

The collaboration makes sense for both companies.

 

Ford and Toyota already make excellent hybrids and no doubt were  developing the technology for full-size trucks. Working together makes  the job easier for Ford and cheaper for Toyota, said Aaron Bragman, an  auto industry analyst with IHS Automotive.

 

Ford can get a look at what Toyota, by far the leader in hybrid tech,  is working on, thereby saving time and money. Toyota, which builds a  fraction of the trucks Ford does, can tap Ford’s economy of scale to  offer a cost-effective and affordable rear-wheel-drive hybrid system.

 

“This is a winning situation for both companies,”  Bragman said.

 

The Ford F-150 has long been the best-selling truck in the United  States, and Toyota dominates the hybrid market. But neither company  sells a full-size rear-wheel-drive hybrid truck, and the companies that  have — most notably General Motors — saw little success.

 

That’s because current hybrid systems can add $10,000 or more to the  sticker price while returning a negligible increase in fuel economy. But  meeting the new fuel economy standards will force automakers to embrace  advanced technologies and offer them widely, prompting Ford and Toyota  to work together. (General Motors reportedly is working on a successor  to the two-mode hybrid system it offered in vehicles like the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid.)

 

The proposed fuel economy standards will require automaker’s  corporate fleets to average 54.5 mpg by 2025. Full-sized pickups are  exempt from increases during the 2017-2019 model years, but will see  annual increases reaching as much as 5 percent annually thereafter.

 

“The EPA fuel standards are a big challenge for us automakers,”  Takeshi Uchiyamada, Toyota’s executive vice president for research and  development, said through a translator at a press conference in Detroit.  “Trucks and SUVs are vehicles that the American society cannot do  without. This collaboration we are forming with Ford is not only about  lowering carbon dioxide but making light-duty trucks and SUVs more  affordable.”

 

The two companies will not develop trucks and SUVs, only the hybrid  drivetrain propelling them. The technology will appear in unspecified  Ford and Toyota models, and the companies said the drivetrain will be  tailored to suit each vehicle and the needs of consumers.

 

“Clearly Ford and Toyota will remain competitors,” Kuzak said during  the press conference. “By working together, we will be able to offer our  customers more affordable technology sooner.”

The next step is drawing up a formal agreement, which is expected  next year, and a feasibility study to determine the extent of the  collaboration. The companies also will work together to develop  standards for vehicle telematics and in-car internet services.

 

This is not the first time Ford and Toyota have worked together. The  two companies signed a patent-sharing deal in 2005 that allowed Ford to  license Toyota’s Synergy Hybrid system for the Ford Escape and Mercury  Mariner hybrids. In exchange, Toyota gained access to Ford’s diesel and  direct-injection engine technology.

 

But this is the first time the two automakers have worked together on  product development. They started exploring the possibility of a  partnership when Ford boss Alan Mulally and Toyota boss Akio Toyoda  crossed paths at an airport, Uchiyamada said. Drivetrain development  teams from the two automakers started working together in April.

 

“This is the kind of collaborative effort that is required to address  the big global challenges of energy independence and environmental  sustainability,” Mulally said in a statement.

 

SOURCE: www.wired.com/autopia

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