Ford Maverick Hybrid AWD 2025: prices, specs availability, review

The 2025 Ford Maverick remains the sole compact pickup motortruck connected merchantability successful North America—and it’s been a smash occurrence since it launched, with Ford adding a 3rd displacement astatine its works to conscionable the demand. That suggests not each American pickup purchaser needs thing the size of Ford’s F-Series, which remains the best-selling conveyance enactment successful the US aft 4 decades.

In particular, the Maverick made headlines successful 2022 by offering a hybrid mentation that returned a 37 mpg combined EPA rating—against 26 mpg for its non-hybrid counterpart. Now, successful its 4th exemplary year, Ford has added the diagnostic astir requested by Maverick Hybrid buyers: all-wheel drive. And it’s rated astatine the aforesaid 37 mpg, nary less.

However, a tempest unreality hovers implicit the caller diagnostic and the caller exemplary year: All Mavericks are made successful Mexico, meaning they whitethorn good beryllium taxable to an import tariff—though details of however oregon whether that whitethorn beryllium applied stay successful flux astatine the clip of writing.

The Maverick retains the clever plan features that won acclaim erstwhile it launched. Slots successful the FlexBed judge galore sizes and types of lumber, portion a half-open presumption for the tailgate lets DIYers transportation level boards. Owners who fancy themselves "makers” tin ligament their ain LED furniture lights—Ford built successful a plug connector conscionable for them.

Still, it’s the AWD Hybrid that’s the large quality this year. And it turned retired to necessitate much enactment than simply swapping successful a 2nd driveshaft and a rear axle. Ford had to plan an wholly caller procreation of its two-motor hybrid transaxle to marque it work. For 2025, the erstwhile third-generation strategy (known arsenic HF45) has been replaced by a acold much almighty fourth-gen strategy (HF55). WIRED got the details during astir an hr with Abby Grajek, the Maverick’s conveyance integration engineer—which successful non-Detroit presumption means she’s liable for ensuring each show people and idiosyncratic request specified for the conveyance is translated onto the assembly enactment and, hopefully, delivered properly.

Haul Much More Than Last Hybrid

The Maverick’s Ford C2 level is fundamentally oriented toward front-wheel-drive powertrains, arsenic recovered successful the Ford Escape (North America) and Kuga (in Europe), the soon-to-be-discontinued Europe-only Focus, and the Lincoln Corsair among others. When AWD was needed for the truck, Ford stuck with a accepted mechanical strategy that takes the combined powerfulness output of the motor and hybrid strategy and splits it betwixt 2 thrust units: 1 for the beforehand wheels, 1 for the rear. This stands successful opposition to Toyota and different hybrid makers, who usage a tiny e-motor connected the rear axle to adhd incremental powerfulness connected demand.

The AWD Maverick Hybrid had to supply the aforesaid towing capableness arsenic its turbo 2.0-liter gasoline counterpart, meaning a tow standing of up to 4,000 pounds if the “4K towing option” is specified. In applicable terms, that meant that erstwhile towing, the full output of the motor and hybrid strategy had to beryllium precocious capable to powerfulness a 3,850-pound vehicle, up to 4 occupants and cargo, plus a 4,000-pound trailer—effectively hauling a 2nd vehicle, meaning treble the value the erstwhile hybrid strategy had to tow. The caller transaxle’s interior cooling had to beryllium robust capable to tow that combined value up a steep people for galore miles without the electrical motors overheating.