Ford C-MAX hybrid mooted for 2013

The Blue Oval is to produce its first hybrid electric models, due for European launch in 2013.

Words Lee Pickering Published 11 May 2010

Ford's mini-MPV - the C-MAX - will be the company's first European car to be fitted with a hybrid electric drivetrain. Both the forthcoming C-MAX and the larger Grand C-MAX (scheduled for launch later this year) will get the technology and Ford plans to make a hybrid electric and a plug-in hybrid version, both due for release in 2013.

The hybrid electric plans will cost the company up to $36million and the company's Valencia plant has been given the go ahead to build the first cars.

America will get a seven-seat version of the C-MAX in late 2011 as part of Ford's 'Global Sourcing Strategy' and the company also claims that there will be a total of five hybrid and electric models by 2013.

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