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Ford Explorer Commercial Civilization Is Packed With Doggos: Video

We’ve been talking about the new commercials that Ford has airing during football games for the Ford Explorer. The last of the trio of new adds is still touting the Ford Explorer as the ultimate exploration vehicle. This time out, the commercial isn’t focusing on the Terrain Management System as the past two commercials have.

The new Ford Explorer commercial called “Civilization” focuses on the 2020 Ford Explorer Hybrid and its tow rating. The commercial opens on a cold and snowy mountain top with an explorer and her sled dogs inside a tent being ravaged by wind. As the woman wakes up from a nap, clad in a giant winter coat, the dogs whine and want out of the cold.

She loads all the equipment up in a trailer towed behind her Ford Explorer Hybrid and drives the dogs down the mountain to the pet spa and resort. It’s not as long or as fun as the other commercials that Ford has including “Nighttime Adventure” and “Journey Home” but it’s fun none the less and gets its point about tow ratings across without being boring.

The Ford Explorer Hybrid that the new Explorer commercial touts was introduced for the first time for the 2020 model year. The official EPA fuel economy numbers were published not long ago, and the Explorer Hybrid is better than the regular Explorer models, but not by much. The 2020 Ford Explorer Hybrid AWD is rated at 23 mpg city, 26 mpg highway, and 25 mpg combined. The 2020 Ford Explorer all-wheel-drive with the turbo 2.3-liter four-cylinder is rated at 20 mpg city, 27 mpg highway, and 23 mpg combined.

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Shane is a car guy with a fondness for Mustangs and off-roading.

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  1. The new Explorer Hybrid uses an older and less efficient hybrid system, where one electric motor is located between the engine and transmission. The Fusion and C-Max Hybrids and Energi models (and the new Escape Hybrid and Energi) use a special transaxle (as FWD) with two motors integrated with a planetary gear to manage the power flow, and allow more electric driving than the Explorer system. That better system has the axles and wheels always powered by the traction motor, while the gasoline engine adds power to that motor. The Explorer system has not been fully explained, and I suspect that the electric motor is not 100% powering the wheels. That is why the Fusion and C-Max models can give 44 MPH under EPA specifications (I get 54 MPG in my Fusion Hybrid).

    So if anyone wants a better Ford Hybrid, get the Escape Hybrid instead.

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