Ford Escape Hybrid is well down the road to tomorrow
Jul 19th, 2008 by admin
Ford was the first automaker to offer a true hybrid SUV. That was back in 2004, and five model years later, the Ford Escape Hybrid continues to lead the way.
Customers in the Spokane, Washington area continue to make this a much sought-after vehicle.
As the cost of gasoline occupies an ever-larger share of their budgets, families in Washington are investigating alternatives to traditional vehicles. The Escape Hybrid offers the full range of possibilities: it can switch, automatically, from 100% gasoline power to 100% electric motor or a combination of the two. Whenever you step on the brakes, the electric motor instantly becomes an electric generator, cranking out power to recharge the batteries.
Acceleration in the Escape Hybrid is comparable to the fully gasoline powered Escape, but as you’d expect, the Hybrid comes out on top in terms of fuel economy, getting between 33 and 36 m.p.g. in stop-and-go city traffic such as you might experience in Spokane.
As we all move into a new age where energy concerns become even more important, the Escape Hybrid has become the focus of inventors and engineers outside the automotive industry. The Escape Hybrid is an ideal testing platform for ideas as straightforward as “plug-in cars” that recharge overnight in the garage to infinitely more esoteric schemes for harnessing energy from nature and putting it to work on the road.
Until we arrive at solar-powered transportation, the closest thing we have to The Car of Tomorrow is the Ford Escape Hybrid in Spokane, Washington.