There were a couple of things missing from the facelifted Puma lineup when Ford revealed it in February. One was the 197 hp turbocharged 1.5-liter triple previously available in the Puma ST, meaning the punchiest Puma is now a 168 hp 1.0-liter hybrid. And the other absentee was the long-awaited Puma EV. Ford didn’t have a fully electric version of the Puma in the original pre-facelift lineup launched in Europe in 2019 but openly admitted that there’s one coming, something our previous spy shots had confirmed. And with the refreshed version of the crossover now revealed, it can only be a matter of weeks before the electric Puma gets its turn in the spotlight.
Spy photo team has snapped the EV
undergoing last-minute winter checks ahead of the launch, and we can see from
the images that the most obvious of the mild tweaks applied to the combustion
car have been carried over to the EV. The
electric version also has a slightly different set of wheels, and a different
nose section, including, curiously, license-plate holders with VW branding.
Though most of that nose is hidden by
camouflage, we can make out the fine horizontal slats at the bottom of the
bumper, and that the grille is blanked off because, being an EV, this prototype
doesn’t have the same cooling requirements as an ICE Puma. One of the small
design changes Ford made to the facelifted car was the relocation of the Ford
badge from the filler panel between the grille and hood to the grille itself,
and we’re sure the EV will get the same treatment.
It will also get the same interior
upgrade, which means drivers sit facing a 12.8-inch digital instrument cluster
borrowed from the Tourneo Courier and have a 12-inch touchscreen display
running SYNC4 just an arm-stretch away. And that’s not all the electric Puma
has in common with the boxy Tourneo Courier and its Transit Courier
counterpart. All three are built on the same platform, meaning the electric
Puma is likely to be powered by the same 134 hp powertrain as
the EV vans.
