I doubt very highly they are going to develop a new or even semi modified version of the HO 3.5 for the Raptor. They will have to increase power, and likely it’ll come at the expense of weight from a battery and motors. They already have a power boost, there is no way in all their staff meetings the idea of putting the hybrid in the raptor hasn’t come up at least once.
I think we've all seen the PB Raptor. I doubt they'll go the hybrid route mainstream with the Raptor as a bump in #'s.... Hybrids are still a huge turnoff for alot of people, especially a truck like a Raptor. I wouldn't give a PB Raptor a second look, I don't personally know another Raptor owner thatd take the jump on a PB Raptor.
I'd personally
absolutely love a PHEV Raptor. I say it damn near every single time I get out of my wifes Porsche Cayenne Turbo S e-hybrid. For the types of driving we do and will likely do, it's just the best middle-for us. Speaking for her car, we can slip outta the neighborhood and do all of our running around town all on battery, getting 99.9mpg. When we get on the highway, we toss it in 'Hybrid Auto' mode, and when we need to use the Twin Turbo V8, it simply pops on, does its thing, and then turns off when not needed. We can go 83mph on electric-only in the Cayenne. When we want the full 670hp, it's there. Though we can also coast downhill and the engine turns off, the driveline fully disconnects and it'll gain speed all the while charging the battery a little bit and not burning a drop of fuel.
A hybrid Raptor would be incredible, but alas, I've driven a PowerBoost to see if it was something I'd be into and lets just say that I think there's a real,
real reason that Porsche is at the price-point which they are. Last time I checked, Porsche assembled and delivered something like ~350,000 vehicles total, and Ford sold over a million F150's, not to mention all their other vehicles in the portfolio. Just wild to think about. That said, the Porsche hybrid system is incredibly smooth, seamless, and functional. I'd love a "Porsche Raptor", or hell I'd even settle for the fake Audi Truck.
Gimme a hybrid Raptor and make it actually pleasurable to drive. I've never drank coffee in my life, nor ever been through a Starbucks drive-thru, so I don't care about a little bit of weight when you have incredible functionality. My wifes car is single nicest thing I've ever driven, likely one of the quickest, definitely the fastest, second smoothest, and just bonkers that we can do 800+ on a tank with the way we drive and trips we do, all the while having nearly 700hp on tap whenever we need it.
Ford won't do that and if they did (ever) they'd price most of us out of it, anyway. Plus, it'd still be a damn F-150. That's my hangup with getting an "R" for the prices they still are asking. I nearly got a GT350R the other day and got preapproved through my bank, and they gave me values on all the VIN's that I provided in our garage. It's wild that a 2023 "R" that just sold on BaT for $127,000 was only valued at $97,875 wheras my truck with 15,000 miles and the puny V6 was valued at $91,100. Crazy how neither mine nor it would sell for those 'valued prices', but that's where the bank sees it. Thankfully that's near what the bank valued it at years ago when I bought it. Crazy enough, my wifes Cayenne has been going
up in value, though the Mach 1 has dropped.
Anyway, a PB Raptor will never happen likely, but it'd be cool.
