Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The new Ford Escape’s 1.6-liter l/100 km) on the highway cycle—2 mpg better than the Honda CR-V and 5 mpg better than Toyota RAV4. All three engines in the new Escape are EPA-certified at 30-plus mpg on the highway. liter EcoBoost engine has earned an EPA fuel economy rating of 33 mpg US (7.13

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2022

The Sportage Hybrid starts at $28,545 in front-wheel-drive form—a price that undercuts base versions of the Ford Escape Hybrid, Toyota RAV4 Hybrid. And both that and recent fuel economy figures give plenty of reason to take note.

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Kia Price Hybrid Escape 166

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A Toyota bZ4X drove itself off a pier and crashed into the ocean just north of Boston after the driver forgot to put the EV in park Wednesday. Toyota bZ4X plunges off pier and crashes into the ocean It’s all fun and games until your new EV ends up in the ocean. Meanwhile, the Toyota bZ4X was a total loss after crashing into the ocean.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Prius Prime PHEV Plug-in Hybrid Technology in an All-New Package Toyota is taking the lead suggesting how you should drive a plug-in hybrid. Toyota invited the automotive media to Carlsbad, California, in late March for the first drives of what turns-out to be a significantly improved Prius Prime.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2013

The Ford Escape is one of the most popular compact crossovers on the market today, and its all-new 2013 model goes head-to-head with the Honda CRV and Toyota RAV4. We spent six days with a pale green ("Ginger Ale Metallic") 2013 Ford Escape Titanium 4WD.'

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 19, 2021

Yes, you might still be able to get non-hybrid versions of the Honda CR-V, or its rivals like the Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Tucson, or Ford Escape, but each year the portion of these that are selling as hybrids becomes a little larger. The Honda CR-V Hybrid is a quiet giant in the grand shift that’s happening in the auto industry.

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Honda Tucson Hybrid Escape 168

Green Car Reports

JULY 7, 2020

We look at how the Toyota RAV4 Prime compares to plug-in hybrid rivals. Toyota recalls Prius models over hybrid-system concerns. Toyota has expanded a large recall of Prius and Prius V models, ranging from the 2013 through 2017 model years, to address a defect that could. And Jay Leno gets to drive a Canoo.

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Prius Escape PHEV Toyota 90

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V, and Ford Escape will soon have a more direct. Which model did Volkswagen call “the driving force” behind its pivot to electric cars? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 18, 2020.

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F-150 Tucson GMC Hummer 158

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

specifications and availability for the hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions of the expressively styled, somewhat larger 2022 Tucson compact SUV lineup Set to rival the Honda CR-V Hybrid, Ford Escape Hybrid, Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, and RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid, the 2022 Hyundai Tucson models will offer a.

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Tucson Plug-in Hyundai Hybrid 137

Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2019

Which startup automaker got a big boost toward production this week? What automakers opened some of its patent library for free until 2030? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 5, 2019. This week Tesla announced its first-quarter sales, and posted big drops for all its.

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Escape Sale Hybrid Audi 102

EV Central

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“But if you do the economics for a vehicle, let’s say the Escape or smaller, it’s totally different, it completely works. 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning. In fact, it’s dramatically better operating cost than a Corolla or Civic or even a Maverick.”

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BYD Ford F-150 Escape 93

Green Car Reports

JUNE 8, 2016

The 2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid is the sole mass-market crossover SUV that offers a hybrid powertrain and all-wheel drive. That was a market pioneered by the Ford Escape Hybrid, in 2004, and one that Ford walked away from for 2013. It turns out that there seems to be a market for compact crossovers with both AWD and high fuel economy.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The 2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid is the first mass-market crossover utility with a hybrid powertrain since the demise of the Ford Escape Hybrid in 2012. Granted, there's the luxury Lexus NX hybrid (using some of the same underpinninngs), and the low-volume Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid, with a mild-hybrid powertrain.

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2016 Toyota Hybrid Escape 60

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

Toyota Motor Corporation has reached an agreement with Ford Motor Company to explore collaboration with Livio, a Ford subsidiary acquired in 2013 ( earlier post ), for the implementation of SmartDeviceLink (SDL) technology in future Toyota and Lexus vehicles. —Shigeki Terashi, Senior Managing Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation.

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Ford Toyota North America Connect 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

Toyota RAV4 Hybrid (MY 2019 US and UK). Ford (MY 2020 Escape in US, MY 2020 Kuga in UK). The US vehicles were tested in Michigan, and the European vehicles in the UK. The vehicles were: 3.0l BMW X5 (MY 2019 in US, MY 2020 in UK). Jeep Wrangler (MY 2020 US and UK).

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Emissions 2020 Escape BMW 243

Teslarati

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Apparently, a driver of a black Tesla Model 3 called Lin ended up being involved in a fender bender with a Toyota Yaris sedan, which was rented by a man named Huang and his three companions. Tempers flared, and as per police reports, the four men in the Toyota proceeded to beat up the Tesla owner. But that was not all. .

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Tesla Taiwan Toyota Escape 145

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

The top two vendors of hybrids in the US, Toyota and Ford, each reported strong gains in hybrid sales in March 2010 year-on-year. Toyota saw its overall hybrid sales grow 21.6% Overall, Toyota reported an increase in total light duty vehicle sales of 40.7% by volume (not day sales rate) to 16,714 units. from March 2009.

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LS 600H Honda Hybrid Toyota 186

The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. Ford launched the Escape Hybrid as a 2005 model (its Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute siblings showed up a bit later), so The General had some catching up to do in the green-car department.

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VUE Saturn 2007 Green 105

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Toyota anticipates that the 2016 Prius ( earlier post ) will deliver fuel economy ratings of 54 MPG city / 50 MPG highway / 52 MPG combined. As in the third-generation Prius, the Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive combines the output of a 1.8-liter As in the third-generation Prius, the Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive combines the output of a 1.8-liter

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Prius MPG 2016 Toyota 150

Push EVs

APRIL 8, 2023

In the immediate shadow of the Tesla were the runners up, the Toyota BZ4X (repeating its 2nd place, first achieved in February), and the Volvo XC40, in third. After two decent months in Norway, the Toyota BZ4X — having suffered plenty of initial snafus — is now doing well, and has consolidated 2nd place, from 22nd in Q4 last year.

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Norway Auto Sale Plugin 131

The Truth About Cars

JULY 29, 2023

He also noted that Ford would not follow the typical hybrid mold of cars like the Toyota Prius and would instead bring more unique solutions to market. Ford currently offers a few hybrids, including the Escape Hybrid, Maverick, and F-150. It also sells three EVs and is rumored to be working on a new electric truck.

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F-150 Ford Hybrid Range 97

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The Toyota Prius V hybrid. Today, we've got a different approach to electric trucks, a complicated combustion engine, more solar power, a plug-in future Ford, and some worries about U.S. competitiveness. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Plug-in Solar Escape Future 92

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The Hyundai Sonata Turbo, Kia Sportage Turbo, and Ford Escape 2.0T Toyota Camry. Toyota Camry. Ford Escape. Toyota RAV4. Ford Escape. Toyota RAV4. While the 1.4-liter Consumer Reports has also found some turbocharged four-cylinder models that do deliver good fuel economy and acceleration: BMW’s new 2.0-liter

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Fuel Economy Economy Engine Fusion 299

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

Since 2009, 38% of Ford’s growth has come from vehicles in this super segment, which includes Fiesta, Focus, Fusion and Escape. Two-thirds of all buyers shop the Escape and Fusion when they first come into a Ford dealership. Escape has been the best-selling small utility in the US for the past two months, Ford notes.

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Ford Escape Fusion North America 225

Green Car Reports

JUNE 27, 2014

High-mileage Toyota Priuses or Ford Escape Hybrids? What kind of taxis do you ride in? Battered old Crown Vics? Our bet is that unless you''ve recently spent some time in Norway, you haven''t ridden in a Tesla taxi.

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Taxi Electric Cars Norway Escape 166

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2014

One was the first-generation Toyota Prius. And Ford''s Escape Hybrid had just made its.' Turn back the clock by one decade, and there were just four hybrid cars on sale in the U.S. The original Honda Insight was still going strong as the most efficient vehicle on sale (and only plug-in cars still better it today).

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Civic Hybrid Honda Insight Hybrid 2014 153

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

Major competitors to the Atlas—Ford Explorer, Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander and Nissan Pathfinder among them—offer a three-year/36,000 mile basic warranty and a five-year/60,000 mile powertrain warranty.

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2018 Miles SUV Highlander 150

Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2017

The Ford Escape Hybrid reigned alone in the first segment from 2004 through 2012, and then Ford simply walked away from the segment. It took until last year for the 2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid to arrive, quickly racking thousands of.

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Hybrid 2004 Escape SUV 88

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

Findings include: The lowest energy consumption chassis of the 2010 passenger vehicle fleet by the VLFC method is the Toyota Prius, followed by the Suzuki SX4 chassis, the Yaris, and then the Civic Hybrid and the Kia Rio.

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Mercury Energy Highlander Escape 236

Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Farley said anything “larger than the Escape” better be functional or a work vehicle. An Escape-sized EV or smaller “completely works,” Ford’s leader explained. Meanwhile, smaller electric cars are different.

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Affordable Ford SUV F-150 52

Green Car Reports

MARCH 9, 2010

Owners of Toyota's iconic Prius hybrid model who thought they'd escaped the rash of Toyota recalls need to think again. The company is working on a fix to reshape accelerator pedals so that they cannot be trapped by floor mats, and will issue details within weeks.

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Prius 2004 2008 Toyota 66

Green Car Reports

MARCH 9, 2010

Owners of Toyota's iconic Prius hybrid model who thought they'd escaped the rash of Toyota recalls need to think again. The company is working on a fix to reshape accelerator pedals so that they cannot be trapped by floor mats, and will issue details within weeks.

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Prius 2004 Toyota 2009 60

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 13, 2022

Choosing the Ford Escape can reduce your insurance bill. – Ford Escape. – Toyota RAV. In addition, it will talk about how age, location, and driving history can impact your premiums. Keep reading to learn more about the least expensive cars in insure. 1) Vehicle Model. – Subaru Outback. 2) Vehicle Size.

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Cars Escape Florida Ford 88

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Following the 2012 demise of the much-loved Ford Escape Hybrid, it took four years for the 2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid to emerge. It's one of the most frequent questions asked by shoppers interested in utility vehicles with better gas mileage: why aren't there more hybrid SUVs and crossovers?

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SUV Hybrid Escape 2017 60

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2009

Toyota reaped the largest percentage of sales under the CARS program (19.4%), followed by GM (17.6%) and Ford (14.4%). The top 10 vehicles purchased under the program were: Toyota Corolla. Toyota Camry. Toyota Prius. Ford Escape FWD. Honda came in fourth at 13.0%. Honda Civic. Ford Focus FWD. Hyundai Elantra.

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Cash For Clunkers Fuel Economy Jeep Honda 247

Teslarati

MARCH 6, 2024

As someone who drove a Ford Escape Hybrid for seven years, it offered a lot of positives, including better fuel economy than the same model in an ICE version. Jonas believes that Toyota will outpace any major automaker in the U.S. this year in terms of growth due to its focus on hybrid powertrains.

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Price Tesla Hybrid Highlander 112

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

Engineers heat the air inside a vehicle’s cabin, then take thermal images to spot the location from which warm air is escaping. Data from Ford’s US Global Quality Research System show the 2013 Ford Fusion earned a 67% approval rating for interior quietness compared to 58 percent for the 2012 Toyota Camry.

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