Escape qualifies for its "full" hybrid status because it automatically switches between pure electric power, pure gasoline engine power, or combined operation to maximize efficiency and performance.
Full hybrids achieve their greatest improvement in fuel economy during stop- and -go driving, when the electric motor is most efficient. In fact, the Escape Hybrid provides approximately 80 percent better fuel economy in city driving than the conventional V-6 Escape.
Its gasoline engine and electric motor work in concert, Ford says, and that provides performance similar to that of a V-6. In less demanding situations, the Escape Hybrid can run on its electric motor alone (at speeds up to 40 kmh), its gasoline engine alone, or the most efficient combination of the two.
Escape Hybrid can travel about 640 to 800 km in city driving on a single tank of gasoline.
Of course, you'll pay a lot more for the hybrid and it's unlikely that you'll ever repay that premium unless you drive about three times as far every year as the average Canadian. But you will have to make fewer gas station stops, which is appealing in itself.
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Its gasoline engine and electric motor work in concert, Ford says, and that provides performance similar to that of a V-6. In less demanding situations, the Escape Hybrid can run on its electric motor alone (at speeds up to 40 kmh), its gasoline engine alone, or the most efficient combination of the two.
Escape Hybrid can travel about 640 to 800 km in city driving on a single tank of gasoline.
Of course, you'll pay a lot more for the hybrid and it's unlikely that you'll ever repay that premium unless you drive about three times as far every year as the average Canadian. But you will have to make fewer gas station stops, which is appealing in itself.
photo:Ford Motor Company
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