Please don’t be like our resident fire starter guy who takes a tiny bit of information and turns it into a world-wide fact beyond discussion. Fact is, ZFG is likely the top tuner for the 10R80. He has much experience with the F150 Raptor 10R80 specifically. A few of us have tuning experience with several other vehicles.
As for tuning any PHEV, there’s more software and hardware involved that certainly isn’t in high demand for tuning, such that there’s little to no incentive to developers. PHEVs are likely one of, if not “the”, last in any list of “tunable” vehicles.
Seriously, maybe it isn’t a “tune” that you need for your PHEV vehicle, but an actual ST? The Ford of Europe web site shows its available.
Not trying to be a firestarter, have contacted them and others but simply none are willing. I contacted them exactly because they are the experienced guys with both the engine and the transmission. Both the engine and transmission are pretty uncommon here unfortunately.
The demand for PHEV tuning might not be in high demand yet in the US, on this side of the world it's a different case and with the increasing number of PHEV'S i think it's only a matter of time and for many PHEV's its no issue to tune them as the electric motor is (for lack of a better terminology) the "slave" to the ICE.
On which part of the EU ford site are you looking? In Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Norway, Denmark, the PHEV is the only Explorer available and, to my knowledge, no European country has the non PHEV version available unless its through separate import and that would increase the price even further, by about 40-60% from its already 80k minimum pricetag.
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