Green Machines : Fact Sheets : FORD ESCAPE HYBRID
The Escape Hybrid achieves over 32 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving, a near 50% fuel economy improvement over the average compact SUV. This means nearly 500 miles per tank of gas, compared to only 330 miles on other compact SUVs.
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With a little more practice at building good interiors, with a little more investment in quality materials, with a little more innovation in the area where people put their fannies as well as the innovation under the hood, Ford and its Escape Hybrid would have easily won this category. The Escape has a reputation, after all, as a capable SUV that meets the needs of thousands of drivers. The point revealed in this test is, perhaps, two-fold.
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That last concern was just recently addressed, with Ford announcing the 2-wheel drive 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid will have a base manufacturers suggested retail price (MSRP) of $26,380 when made available later this year.
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Of those built by the Big 3, only the Escape Hybrid is a full hybrid, meaning that it can drive on either electric or gasoline power. The others - the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups and Dodge Ram pickup - are mild hybrids.
Are You Ready For A Hybrid?
Want a gas-thrifty econo-box with four, maybe five, seats and gussied up with all the amenities? The plain-looking Honda Civic Hybrid and the showier Toyota Prius cost about 20 grand each. For a family sedan, there's the Honda Accord Hybrid. If you like the above-it-all seating of a sport-utility, you can consider a hybrid version of the Ford Escape compact SUV, introduced last fall, or the seven-passenger Toyota Highlander, due in June. If price is no object (but social status is), the Lexus RX 400h beats your neighbor's RX 330 in fuel economy, emissions, and performance. It's arriving in dealers' showrooms just about now.
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The first is their preview of the long-awaited Ford Escape Hybrid SUV. When Bill Ford took over the company a few years back, he promised major changes to the vehicles Ford produced in order to improve greenhouse gas emissions. He has yet to really live up to his promises, but the Escape Hybrid appears to be a move in the right direction.
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Toyota - a pioneer in developing hybrid technology (Ford's Escape hybrid uses Toyota-designed equipment) understood this from the outset - focusing its efforts as much on consumer acceptability as on efficiency.
Energy Slayers
This table illustrates the emissions reduction of driving the Ford Escape Hybrid rather than the Toyota Sequoia and the Ford Expedition. (Expedition and Sequoia have same city mpg): The table above illustrates the emissions reduction of driving the Ford Escape Hybrid rather than the Chevy Tahoe.
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Kansas City, labor and environmental groups joined forces to applaud the new Ford Escape Hybrid as good for jobs and the environment. National, chapter, and group Sierra Club representatives held a press conference with the United Autoworkers, Steelworkers, The Ecology Center, Burroughs Audubon of Kansas City, the Institute for Labor Studies, and the Apollo Alliance to spread the word about the importance of fuel-saving technology. The press conference produced dozens of media hits in Kansas City and around the country, from Hawaii to New York. The new Escape is the first American-made hybrid, and also the first hybrid SUV to reach the market. The 35 mile-per-gallon Escape is rated as a Partial-Zero Emission Vehicle (PZEV) and meets California's strict air pollution standards - something most people never expected to hear about any SUV.
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