It’s been 20 years since Ford launched its first hybrid — the Escape crossover — to be followed by hybrid versions of the Fusion sedan, C-Max “multi-purposed vehicle” and Explorer SUV. Today’s hybrid roster consists of the F-150 and Maverick pickups, as well as the Escape and Lincoln Corsair, until production ends later this year for both of them.
What might be perceived as Dearborn testing the hybrid waters for two decades is about to get a serious reset as Dearborn pivots from more expensive battery-electric vehicles to focus intently on range-extended battery-electric vehicles, which are often referred to as plug-in hybrids, except the internal-combustion engine in an EREV acts as a generator that doesn’t directly drive the wheels.
Ford’s Hybrid Surge, Just Beginning?
Looking forward, count on Ford to talk a lot more about this technology and to highlight growth whenever possible. The year-end sales tally for 2025 is a good example. By 2030, Ford says it expects hybrids, extended-range EVs and battery-electric vehicles to make up half its global volume, up from 17% today.
Hybrids, for instance, led the way as Ford’s fastest growing mode of propulsion, showing up in more than 228,072 Ford hybrids in 2025, representing 21.7 percent growth over 2024. That increase came on top of 40.1-percent growth for Ford hybrids from 2023. Granted, a quarter-million hybrids is modest by Toyota or Honda standards, but it’s something Ford promises to build on.
Top-Selling Hybrid Pickup
And here’s something Toyota can’t claim: America’s best-selling full-size hybrid pickup. Ford claimed that mantle with sales of 84,934 F-150 Hybrids in 2025, up 15 percent from 2024. True, the Toyota Tacoma owns the midsize truck segment, but hybrid Tacoma sales were under 31,000 units.
The compact Escape-based Maverick pickup wasn’t far behind the F-150, with 81,034 hybrid sales in 2025, up 17.9 percent. Maverick sales overall climbed 18.2 percent to 155,051 in 2025 in the U.S., while F-Series sales (including F-150) rose 8.3 percent to 828,832 trucks.
Big Uptick For Ranger
Across the expanse of Ford truck land, deliveries rose 9.5 percent to 1.3 million units, including 70,960 Rangers (up 53.6 percent). The few sour notes among Ford trucks in 2025 were to be expected: Lightning fell 18.5 percent to 27,307 units, while the all-electric E-Transit cargo van fell 58.9 percent to 5,186 units as Ford scrapped plans to replace it with an all-new EV.
Another departing vehicle, the Edge crossover, left a big hole in the lineup when it left in 2024 after selling 66,436 units. Dealers cleared out Edge inventory in 2025, amounting to a mere 3,040 deliveries.
Mustang Mach-E Holds Steady
The rest of the Ford brand’s tally sheet looked pretty good: more than 2 million vehicles sold (up 6.2 percent from 2024). Even “car” sales rose 3.0 percent, with the Mustang, Dearborn’s lone non-truck non-SUV, achieving 45,333 sales. And the all-electric Mustang Mach-E bucked the industry trend by selling roughly the same number in 2025 (a robust 51,620 units) as in 2024.
Lincoln grew its 2025 U.S. sales by 2.0 percent to 106,868 SUVs, led by the new full-size Navigator (up 42.8 percent to 22,185 vehicles). The Corsair, Nautilus, and Aviator were all down in 2025, at least 3.4 percent.
Source: Ford Motor Company
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